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.
County Armagh "road-bowling" is a quintessential summer tradition
TUNE IN: Join the Herstory livestream event today and celebrate the Celtic festival of Bealtaine
The passionate love poems and affairs of Michael Collins
The romance of Ireland's dance halls in the 1950s and 1960s
Ice skater wows the crowd with Riverdance routine
Happy Birthday Bridget Moynahan! To celebrate we've planted her a tree in Ireland
Why Cavan is the greatest place in the world
Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
Titanic hero who saved more than 50 people honored in Cork
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 Wren’s Nest owner breaks silence on Glen Hansard’s final hours
- 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