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: A million Irish turned out for Mass at the 1932 Eucharistic Congress
The Celtic tradition of Summer Solstice and how to celebrate the longest day of the year
WATCH: Irish priest shares memories of life on farm in 1930s Co Cork
Pre-Famine census recovered 100 years after shelling of Four Courts
The smell of an open fire in Ireland is intoxicating, but what is Irish turf?
The NYC newspaper editor who spoke out against “No Irish Need Apply”
WATCH: Footage from a Dublin neighborhood, Stoneybatter, in 1979
On This Day: Six people killed during Loughinisland Massacre in Co Down
The fascinating 8,000-year history of Irish cuisine
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- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 3 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
- 5 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 6 Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
- 7 Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
- 8 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 9 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
History
Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
Irish who lost their lives on the Titanic remembered
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy