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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- 1 LISTEN: Irish group Coda sings hauntingly beautiful song
- 2 Happy Birthday Gabriel Byrne! Check out our Dublin star's best movies of all time
- 3 An unforgettable experience landing at Donegal Airport
- 4 WATCH: When Wexford boys claimed to see the Virgin Mary in 1971
- 5 LISTEN: Remembering Dolores O'Riordan, frontwoman of The Cranberries
- 6 Ireland's most picturesque historic villages
- 7 LISTEN: The most popular Irish folk songs of all time on one playlist
- 8 Learn Irish! How many of these animals do you know as Gaeilge?
- 9 Understanding conflict, power, and security today
History
On This Day: Easter Rising leaders Seán MacDiarmada and James Connolly executed
WATCH: When Wexford boys claimed to see the Virgin Mary in 1971
Ireland's International Famine Commemoration to be held in Massachusetts today
Battle of the Boyne 'Living History' tours return this summer
A beautiful Irish poem from Patrick Kavanagh for Mother’s Day
Genealogy