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.
So what have we really learned from the 1916 Rising centenary?
Ten fascinating facts and misconceptions about the 1916 Rising (PHOTOS)
Bill Clinton says 1916 proclamation has key message for today
A reply to Daily Telegraph which compared 1916 leaders to ISIS
Video on Irish beauty over the last 100 years includes gun-toting IRA look
“The Wire’s” Dominic West proclaims his Irishness
America’s role in the Easter Rising
Forgotten graves in Dublin reveal the hidden British dead of 1916
Calling all O’Keeffes! Irish clan gathering planned for September
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- 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
