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: Six people killed during Loughinisland Massacre in Co Down
The fascinating 8,000-year history of Irish cuisine
Why my orphaned Irish father will always be my best friend
EVENT: Don’t miss the last few days of The Irish Civil War National Conference
WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
On This Day: 80 years ago Johnny McCormack, Ireland’s beloved tenor passed away
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
Who was W. B. Yeats and why he still matters
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 Wren’s Nest owner breaks silence on Glen Hansard’s final hours
- 5 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 6 WATCH: The short Irish film starring Brendan Gleeson that won Martin McDonagh his first Oscar
- 7 WATCH: Epic Irish singsong of "The Rattlin Bog" atop Mt Kilimanjaro
- 8 Cork-born Mother Jones, the "most dangerous woman in America," inspired James Connolly
- 9 All you need to know about Sunday's TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Football Championship Finals
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