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.
Explore Irish women's history over the last 100 years this International Women's Day
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Was St. Patrick a slave trader and tax collector?
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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
Most read
- 1 The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
- 2 The "P.S. I Love You" filming locations you can visit in Ireland
- 3 Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
- 4 On This Day: Five killed in Miami Showband Massacre in Co Down in 1975
- 5 Glen Hansard's Dublin wake and funeral to be open to the public
- 6 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 7 Wren’s Nest owner breaks silence on Glen Hansard’s final hours
- 8 WATCH: Dublin's buskers gather to say goodbye to Glen Hansard with the songs he gave them
- 9 From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
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
