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.
The bravery of the Grey Nuns of Montreal during Ireland's Great Hunger
An Irish poet in America recalls the dark secrets of her youth
Where Ireland’s 1916 Rising is being commemorated around the US
Melting pot President New Yorker Eamon DeValera
United Irish Counties launches 1916 book
1916 wasn’t just big in Ireland
Irish government launches website detailing 1916 compensations
Is anyone else tired of the second coming of the 1916 Rising?
WATCH: Incredible newsreel shows Derry boy singing for a Canadian soldier in 1945
Most read
- 1 Secrets of the Daniel O’Connell monument in Dublin
- 2 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 3 What is Bloomsday? Why does James Joyce's "Ulysses" matter so much?
- 4 IrishCentral Book Club's ultimate Irish reading list
- 5 WATCH: Ireland as seen from a horse-drawn caravan 50 years ago
- 6 John Lennon was getting ready to retire to Co Mayo before his tragic death
- 7 Was the real King Arthur Irish?
- 8 Yeats’s Nobel Prize win marked a turning point in Irish literature
- 9 Celebrating the genius of James Joyce on Bloomsday
