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.
Historic John F Kennedy photo stolen during St. Patrick’s Day event – VIDEO
New Irish Famine documents shed light on incredible nuns and priests in Canada
Ten ways to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic - VIDEOS
Prehistoric tool made from antler found in Burren cave - hammerhead found among bones and pottery
Titanic launch day ticket from Belfast to go under the hammer in New York
Top ten strangest events to report this St. Patrick’s season
Newest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in America a huge success - VIDEO
Fallen Irish-American Navy SEAL remembered with pints of Guinness
Bank and insurance company fought over Padraig Pearse after his execution
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- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 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
Ninety-two died in ten minutes off West Cork, and Ireland finally listened
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
Genealogy