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.
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- 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
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- 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
How Ireland's 1848 rebellion against the British ended in a cabbage patch
On This Day: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, is born in 1903
The Irish legend of Tír na nÓg and the warrior who lost 300 years in one moment
Why the Limerick drinking song Garryowen will never be played for the Cheyenne
"The luck of the Irish" was never actually a compliment, and it isn't even Irish
Genealogy