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.
Irish cousin of Joe Biden proud and excited that the Vice President is “coming home”
How our distinctly Irish way of giving directions came to be
Poverty-stricken author of Irish national anthem forced to sue Irish state
Three Irish language speakers wrongfully executed due to lack of English
The 1916 commemoration for British soldiers remembered my own relative
Inquest into 1974 Birmingham pub IRA bombings to be reopened
Montreal’s Irish fight for memorial to the 6,000 famine immigrants who died of typhus
Descendants of Irishmen killed in mining disaster 150 years ago search for answers
The infamous story of the Armagh woman who was buried alive
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