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 Irish surnames came to be - what’s the story behind yours?
Raise a pint of Guinness to St. James on his feast day
Doctors, lawyers, teachers also died in Famine workhouses
The Irish goodbye becomes famous
Famous explorer to unveil plaque honoring historic 1976 re-enactment of St. Brendan's voyage
Churchill's closest confidant was a secretive self-hating Irish immigrant
New York City's own Brexit - Evacuation Day celebrations of 1783
Ireland should have a national day of commemoration for the Great Hunger
How my Irish family inspired me to grow in life and business
Most read
- 1 I took a DNA test and was shocked at what I discovered
- 2 Discover the ten essentials that make up a true Irish breakfast
- 3 The dramatic beauty of County Cavan is just waiting to be uncovered
- 4 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 5 Ten Irish American writers who transformed American literature with their unique voices
- 6 Irish roofing scam gang in the US being investigated by federal authorities
- 7 On This Day: “The Plough in the Stars” playwright Sean O'Casey passed away
- 8 Ireland's second cities: Venture past the obvious in these hidden gems
- 9 Irish American discovers his great-grandfather in a 1929 Seattle railroad photo
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