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.
What's your Irish County? County Roscommon
How the Irish helped keep Shakespeare’s English alive
On This Day: Betty Williams, a co-recepient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was born in 1943
What's your Irish County? County Offaly
Why County Offaly is the greatest place in the world
The Monaghan man who filmed the devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
An American WWII plane was excavated from Irish field 76 years after crashing
On This Day: Irish philanthropist Thomas Barnardo was born in 1845
Famine orphans from Northern Ireland transported to Australia
Most read
- 1 Seamus Heaney's alma mater draws from the past to inspire today’s writers and poets
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
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