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.
On This Day: James Hoban, the Kilkenny architect who designed the White House, died in 1831
Eyewitness account of a Great Famine workhouse on Christmas Day 1847
My ancestors as they were on the night of March 31st 1901
Ireland's top Christmas traditions that make the season
The Patrick Kavanagh poem that invokes Irish Christmas nostalgia
Ever wonder how many places in Ireland are called "bally"?
Lunar eclipse was welcomed by Celts in ancient times
The world's fascination with Ireland's fairy folklore
New TG4 doc explores book banned 100 years ago for being "too dangerous"
This Christmas as you decorate your tree consider planting your Irish roots in Ireland
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 2 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 3 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 4 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 5 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 6 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 7 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 8 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 9 President Michael D. Higgins accuses Israel of leaking his Iran letter
History
The man who "sold" The Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, and Ulysses Grant's tomb
When Boston banned Christmas
Ancient Irish legends and myths surrounding the Cliffs of Moher
On This Day: James Hoban, the Kilkenny architect who designed the White House, died in 1831
Michael Malloy - the Irishman in The Bronx that could not be murdered
Genealogy
