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.
Lorna Byrne, Irish woman who sees angels, gets massive book deal
Son of Irish immigrants gives $15 million to Boston College, $12 million to high school
Irish architect's Washington DC White House valued at $115 million
6,000 year old pre-farming settlement found in the Burren in County Clare
Cork Association in New York hold Titanic memorial
Many Irish helping One World Trade Center reach new heights in New York City
How my teenage Irish parents almost gave my sister up for adoption
Gathering 2013 expected to attract over 300,000 visitors to Ireland - VIDEO
Irish town pushed to play “Danny Boy” all day every day
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- 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