Roots
IrishCentral’s repository of everything to do with your Irish roots – from Irish history, your ancestors, your Irish name, to ancient myth, legend and folklore.
The O'Shea Chaplin Academy of Irish Dance performs at Fenway Park
Fairfield Irish Festival celebrated their 24th Anniversary
Samuel Beckett’s silent masterpiece comes to New York - “Act Without Words II”
Largest ever stash of ancient Celtic coins discovered in Channel Islands
The Irish Homecoming: An Irish love story - returned expat loving Ireland more than ever
First edition Samuel Beckett novel donated to charity shop sells for $18,000
Irish locations named in top 101 scenic drives by National Geographic
Trying to help the undocumented Irish in an earlier generation
McGuinness confirms he discussed Mountbatten murder with Queen Elizabeth
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- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
Charlie Chaplin once visited Big Jim Larkin behind bars in Sing Sing prison
On This Day: JFK was declared winner of the 1960 US presidential election
Why the Irish no longer mark Remembrance Day
More than 30,000 Irish soldiers lost in World War I named in online archive
Armistice Day: Irish World War I soldier describes his experiences
Genealogy