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.
How Ireland today compares to Ireland in 1916
Four unexpected places to find your Irish ancestors (and their little dog too!)
Tragic Glasnevin historian’s grave now has more visitors than Michael Collins
Win the ultimate Irish family history experience
The three brave Irish sisters who raised me in Brooklyn (PHOTOS)
There’s a petition to honor the 1916 centenary with a Google Doodle
Urgent appeal to the Irish in the US to check their attics for 1916 memorabilia
When the Klan and Irish Catholics clashed at the 1924 brokered Democratic convention
Finding your family in Irish Parish Records
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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
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
The Boston Strong Boy was the last bare knuckle king and the first boxing superstar
Heaney won the Nobel 31 years ago and his townlands still feel like home
The man who escaped slavery in Carolina and ended up living in Leinster House
Drop the fada from Éire and the name of the country means burden
Genealogy
