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.
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
The 1916 rebels were spat at in the street before Ireland turned to their side
On This Day: Lord Haw Haw, Irish American Nazi propagandist, born in 1906
Reflecting on the feisty Irish women of France, past, present and future
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
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
On this day in 1990, Mary Robinson became the first woman elected president of Ireland
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
Genealogy
