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.
Family of 1916 British soldier has returned piece of Irish flag to Ireland
Seamus Heaney manuscript, 1922 Proclamation, Irish treasures for auction in Dublin
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Jackie Kennedy disliked Catholics, said they always felt persecuted
A pop-up Irish Gaeltacht is coming to New York next week!
Irish Embassy feared “The Quiet Man” would spark protests from Irish Americans
Michael Collins Dublin walking tour - key locations in the Big Fella’s life
New podcast will delve into the tragic history of Ireland’s Great Hunger
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- 9 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
History
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
Genealogy