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.
Kennedy Book and Research Archive launched in Wexford
New York's Irish Famine Memorial is closed down AGAIN
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Maine Irish fundraise to bring Ancestry DNA tests to Galway
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Was Easter Rising 1916 martyr Michael Mallin set up by the British?
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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
Edward Bruce, the last High King of Ireland, was killed at Faughart on this day in 1318
Eamon de Valera was born in New York 144 years ago today, as a boy named George
Irish bog bodies suggest the Celts killed their kings when the harvests failed
The Irish soldiers who deserted the US Army and died under a green flag in Mexico
The Connolly surname runs from the kings of Tara to a Glasgow comedy stage
Genealogy
