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.
The 1901 Census website is launched in New York City
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Irish roots of Mormon founder Joseph Smith discovered
Parent suing over Phoebe Prince bullying meeting in South Hadley
Ship surgeons spurned famine and convict Irish
Cormac McCarthy is America’s favorite to win Nobel Literature prize
Irish 'Gas Pump Ceili' raises funds for Nasville flood victims
Call for 'Irish Alamo' 1916 Rising site to be preserved
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- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 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
The ancient Irish alphabet read from the bottom up and still carved into stone
Arabella Kennedy was stillborn 70 years ago and her grave reads simply daughter
Why experts still cannot agree on whether human remains lie inside the Titanic
Declassified FBI files allege Lord Mountbatten preyed on young boys
The Irish teenager who doubled for Michael Collins and became a Hollywood star
Genealogy
