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 origins of anti-Irish jokes and how they impacted Irish worldwide
WATCH: World’s largest redhead festival 2023 is a fiery, fun fiesta
Help keep Ireland green by planting a tree with the Irish Heritage Tree
LISTEN: Liam Neeson and Conan O'Brien on their Irish roots (and Guinness)
Irish immigrant museum explores Notre Dame's historic roots with Ireland
How Eamon de Valera got involved with Michael Collins' tombstone
On This Day: IRA kills Lord Mountbatten in Co Sligo ambush
On This Day: The Dublin Lockout begins in 1913
"Empowered" Rose of Tralee set to return home to New York this weekend
Most read
- 1 WATCH: These epic Irish dancing fails are absolutely hilarious
- 2 The "P.S. I Love You" filming locations you can visit in Ireland
- 3 First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
- 4 Gardaí believe Glen Hansard lost control of bike before fatal crash
- 5 WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
- 6 This very Irish habit is apparently the secret to a longer life
- 7 WATCH: Epic Irish singsong of "The Rattlin Bog" atop Mt Kilimanjaro
- 8 This strawberry Battenberg loaf gives a classic bake an Irish summer twist
- 9 On This Day: “Lawrence of Arabia” actor Peter O’Toole was born
History
WATCH: Poignant short Irish film shows the reality of living in rural Ireland in 1974
On This Day: Thomas Francis Meagher, the greatest Irishman in American history, was born
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
Modern Art in Irish America: The Works of Joan Fitzgerald
Genealogy
