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.
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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
