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.
Remembering Tom Crean, the Co Kerry ice man
WATCH: US travel documentary from 1934 gives glimpse of Ireland
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it
Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
Famine in an Irish town – how Dingle survived the Great Hunger
How Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was linked to Sligo’s cholera outbreak
Alexis Mac Allister: Ireland's distant link to World Cup glory
The myths and legends of the Giant’s Causeway
Behind the name: Róisín, the perfect choice for your "little rose"
The most popular boy and girl names in Ireland 1978
Most read
- 1 The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
- 2 Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
- 3 The pros and cons of marrying an Irishman
- 4 Five things you didn't know about the Cliffs of Moher
- 5 Exploring Ireland's Gaeltachts: A revival of the Irish language
- 6 Traditional Irish recipes to make your summer fresh and tasty
- 7 On This Day: Five killed in Miami Showband Massacre in Co Down in 1975
- 8 Emotional footage shows Glen Hansard’s final gig just hours before fatal crash
- 9 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
History
Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
Cork-born Mother Jones, the "most dangerous woman in America," inspired James Connolly
On this day in 1915, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was laid to rest in Dublin, igniting a revolution
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
History of Irish emigration: its tragedies and what we should embrace and celebrate
Genealogy
