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.
Did Ireland’s ancient August Lughnasa games influence the Olympics?
The "Bad Bridgets" - forgotten Famine era single pregnant women who fled to America
The forgotten righteous Jew who saved thousands of Irish lives during the famine
Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
Monaghan census records from the 1500s go online
500 child skeletons in workhouse mass grave tell of Great Hunger struggles
On This Day: A Famine ship carrying my Irish ancestors arrives in New York City in 1847
Castles to rent in Ireland for a fairy tale vacation
A look at New York City's oldest Irish pub, McSorley's
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 Glen Hansard's Dublin wake and funeral to be open to the public
- 4 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 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 Fleadh fever hits Belfast - Tune into the Irish music festival from around the world
- 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
