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.
Famous famine letter once owned by Rita Hayworth's family returns to Skibbereen
On This Day: Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol received its first prisoners in 1796
Young female 1916 Rising fighter in the GPO tells her story
Beautiful Irish baby names inspired by places in Ireland
Famed poet Dylan Thomas and his wild adventures at the ancient Irish Puck Fair
WATCH: Choir's infectious rendition of ancient Irish language song
On This Day: Irish poet, writer and nationalist John Boyle O’Reilly died
94-year-old American flag to be donated to Laois in honor of Irish pilot
50,000 Famine Irish were deported back to Ireland from the US
Most read
- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 Ways you know you grew up in the Irish countryside
- 3 The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
- 4 Gone to America - a haunting abandoned house in Donegal reveals its story
- 5 Summer of strikes: Every European walkout that could wreck your holiday flights this summer
- 6 This Irish brown bread ice cream recipe is unexpectedly good
- 7 First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time
- 8 Irish country green spring soup recipe
- 9 Cool, calm and Celtic: why Ireland makes the perfect coolcation
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