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 you can trace your Irish roots this St. Patrick’s Day
The secrets of The Book of Kells
Forget Aran sweaters, check out pampooties - the original Aran Island shoe
Meet Ireland's friendliest car rental, who are planting Irish trees on the Dingle Peninsula
Our favorite Irish mammy sayings for Mother's Day
On St. Patrick's Day, this Irish Emigration Museum challenges us to see beyond the plastic
Bring a bit of green into your life this St. Patrick's Day by planting a tree in Ireland
The three famous Pegs of Irish history
This St Patrick's Day speak to your Irish heart with Liwu Jewellery's Celtic collection
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- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
Ireland’s answer to the Bayeux Tapestry is just an hour from London
LISTEN: "Making Empire" and the Irish with historian Jane Ohlmeyer
Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
From the Great Blasket to America - a memoir of the longest surviving islander
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Genealogy