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.
On This Day: St. Brendan the Navigator, an early transatlantic voyager, died in 587
Irish songs that celebrate when Nelson’s Pillar was blown up
The best Celtic rock songs for your listening pleasure
Ireland's best places to visit - from natural beauty to a dose of craic!
Lance-Corporal Michael O’Leary, a true Irish WWI hero
This unusual Irish name is trending in the US but given to fewer than 3 babies in Ireland
Belfast City Council marks hidden burial ground from former Belfast Workhouse
On This Day: Easter Rising leaders Seán MacDiarmada and James Connolly executed
Irish Mammy sayings that perfectly capture Mother’s Day
Most read
- 1 A real-life horror story of the Irish cannibal who terrorized Australia
- 2 How big is Ireland? The answer might surprise you!
- 3 Irish Genealogy website offers free access to decades of birth, marriage and death records
- 4 Ireland's most breathtaking natural wonders that deserve a spot on your travel list
- 5 How a Norman knight's bloodline became one of Ireland's most common surnames
- 6 How US textbooks fail to teach the real story of the Irish Famine
- 7 Homemade blackberry jam and custard donuts bring back a taste of Irish summer
- 8 These Baileys Irish cream cheese swirl brownies are pure indulgence
- 9 Trump's whirlwind Ireland visit will mix diplomacy, protests and golf
History
How Daniel O'Connell became Ireland's Great Emancipator and won Catholic rights
Irish Genealogy website offers free access to decades of birth, marriage and death records
How US textbooks fail to teach the real story of the Irish Famine
How a Norman knight's bloodline became one of Ireland's most common surnames
The dark secrets behind the Kennedy family's Camelot image
Genealogy
