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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The Swede and the Finn who fought at the GPO in the 1916 Rising
The top baby names for girls and boys in Ireland 1973
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Viking warriors and treasures are buried beneath Dublin
A history of mashed potatoes… and it's not Irish
Study claims that Irishmen descended from Turkish farmers
“Between the jigs and reels” – what’s behind my Irish Granny’s sayings
Celebrate Grandparents Day by honoring them with a heritage tree planted in Ireland
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 3 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 4 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 5 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 6 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
- 7 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 8 Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
- 9 Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
History
Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
Irish who lost their lives on the Titanic remembered
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy