
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 Joe Biden footage of Newgrange and his ancestor’s resting place
Irish Famine immigrants were huge fans of soda water
Mayhem in the streets of New York - the Orange Riots of the 1870s
Who you gonna call? The clever and funny Ghostbusters (VIDEOS)
The most popular Irish baby names for 2016… so far
Robert De Niro, Mike Tyson feature in new documentary on John F Kennedy Jr (VIDEOS)
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- 3 Paddy Reilly’s is back! Beloved NYC Irish pub to reopen its doors on Thursday
- 4 LAST CHANCE: Win $500 car rental voucher for your travels around Ireland
- 5 Notorious Irish crime gang’s alleged members arrested in Spain
- 6 Sinn Féin seeks an American assist in Washington, DC
- 7 These two Irish boy’s names are topping the 2023 baby name trends
- 8 WATCH: Here’s what Bloomsday looked like 60 years ago in Dublin
- 9 Shannen Doherty, the "90210" alum, reveals cancer has moved to her brain
History

Tom Thumb to Abe Lincoln, heroes who donated to Irish famine relief
WATCH: Here’s what Bloomsday looked like 60 years ago in Dublin
Irish man's incredible correspondence from the US Civil War
History rewritten: DNA evidence shows Vikings weren’t all Scandinavian, some were Irish
The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
Genealogy
