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.
How our distinctly Irish way of giving directions came to be
Poverty-stricken author of Irish national anthem forced to sue Irish state
Three Irish language speakers wrongfully executed due to lack of English
The 1916 commemoration for British soldiers remembered my own relative
Inquest into 1974 Birmingham pub IRA bombings to be reopened
Montreal’s Irish fight for memorial to the 6,000 famine immigrants who died of typhus
Descendants of Irishmen killed in mining disaster 150 years ago search for answers
The infamous story of the Armagh woman who was buried alive
4,800-year-old Newgrange bone leads to theory on how dogs were domesticated
Most read
- 1 GIVEAWAY: Win VIP trip to the largest Celtic festival in the world, Milwaukee Irish Fest!
- 2 On This Day: Daniel O'Connell, "The Liberator," died, in Genoa, in 1847
- 3 On This Day: St. Brendan the Navigator, an early transatlantic voyager, died in 587
- 4 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 5 Kevin Costner's Irish roots in County Kilkenny
- 6 Kilkenny, the Marble City, one of Ireland's most beautiful destinations
- 7 GIVEAWAY: Win VIP trip to the largest Celtic festival in the world, Milwaukee Irish Fest!
- 8 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 9 What's your Irish County? County Kilkenny