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.
Stepping back in time: Ireland’s must-see prehistoric sites revealed
Ballina and Pittsfield, Mass., rekindle Sister City relationship
JFK was an "easy target" during his Irish visit, former President of Ireland said
LISTEN: The most touching Irish ballads
The Irish suffragette who rang a handbell until Churchill gave up and walked off
Read Jackie Kennedy’s letter to the President of Ireland written after JFK’s assassination
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
Win a copy of "Goddesses of Ireland” plus online Celtic course from Moon Mná
The Irish roots of Kate Bush
Most read
- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
Ireland’s answer to the Bayeux Tapestry is just an hour from London
LISTEN: "Making Empire" and the Irish with historian Jane Ohlmeyer
Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
From the Great Blasket to America - a memoir of the longest surviving islander
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Genealogy
