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.
For Mother's Day: Things my Irish Mammy taught me
Happy Birthday, Bono! Celebrate with U2's best songs
The Irish man who tried to steal the British Crown Jewels
Ireland’s Mother’s Day traditions still stand apart
Emerald Magic! 20 baby names inspired by May’s beautiful birthstone
On This Day, 110 years ago Thomas MacDonagh, the Easter Rising leader, was executed
Celebrating the beloved song "The Foggy Dew" and its history
How Irish folklore inspired the black cat superstition
Ireland's ancient Celtic festival of Bealtaine, a celebration of summer's arrival
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
