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.
Bernie Sanders slammed Margaret Thatcher on IRA hunger strikers
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How an ex-Congressman helped end the centuries of war in Ireland
Remembering the 485 civilians killed in the Easter Rising
The United Irishman historic newspaper goes online
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These online parish records will forever change how we find our Irish ancestors
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- 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
Bram Stoker's own family history was darker than anything in "Dracula"
Guglielmo Marconi, the man who opened Clifden to Nova Scotia was a Jameson on his mother’s side
Before Google there was the seanchaí and everything they knew was held in memory
Half of Ireland slept under thatch in the 1800s and the craft is now nearly gone
The Cork cabin boy who jumped ship in Shanghai and taught the OSS how to kill
Genealogy
