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.
What you should know about The Orchard County, County Armagh
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
Most read
- 1 Irish Genealogy website offers free access to decades of birth, marriage and death records
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 5 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 6 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 7 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 8 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
- 9 Artist Paul Henry's thoughts on the enchanting West of Ireland
History
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
Genealogy
