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.
Do you know who invented St. Patrick's Day? Not many people do
Was St. Patrick a slave trader and tax collector?
Here’s how many people in the US claim Irish ancestry - are you one of them?
My mother’s emigrant heart: A story of immigration
This St. Patrick’s Day, take an online course in Irish sean-nós singing
Share your story! What does St. Patrick's Day mean to you?
GIVEAWAY: Win a bespoke Celtic hamper from Moon Mná
Irish people should follow St. Brigid, not just St. Patrick
Irish maids in New York were subject to a racist slur in the 19th century
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
- 3 WATCH: Liam Neeson takes his Easter Bunny audition very seriously
- 4 Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
- 5 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
- 6 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 7 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
- 8 How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
- 9 Ireland to begin testing new Government Digital Wallet as part of wider EU initiative
History
Why Easter is such an important holiday to the Irish
The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
The 1916 Easter Rising - How Irish America and Ireland saw it very differently
Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
My evening with Ned Kelliher, the jarvey of Tralee
Genealogy
