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.
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Most read
- 1 The "P.S. I Love You" filming locations you can visit in Ireland
- 2 Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
- 3 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 4 Gardaí believe Glen Hansard lost control of bike before fatal crash
- 5 WATCH: The short Irish film starring Brendan Gleeson that won Martin McDonagh his first Oscar
- 6 WATCH: Epic Irish singsong of "The Rattlin Bog" atop Mt Kilimanjaro
- 7 Cork-born Mother Jones, the "most dangerous woman in America," inspired James Connolly
- 8 This very Irish habit is apparently the secret to a longer life
- 9 This strawberry Battenberg loaf gives a classic bake an Irish summer twist
History
Modern Art in Irish America: The Works of Joan Fitzgerald
How Maureen O’Hara said a final farewell to John Wayne
Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
Cork-born Mother Jones, the "most dangerous woman in America," inspired James Connolly
On this day in 1915, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was laid to rest in Dublin, igniting a revolution
Genealogy
