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.
Memories of St. Patrick's Day as a child with my father in Donegal
Two completely different ways to make potatoes for St. Patrick's Day
How we celebrated Saint Patrick's Day in rural Ireland, 1959
Fun facts about Ireland and the Irish ahead of St. Patrick's Day
Saint Patrick was from Scotland, research confirms
Governor of New York marks Irish American Heritage Month with sweet family snap
Carry a piece of Ireland with you wherever you go with Liwu Jewellery's new Celtic necklaces
Explore Irish women's history over the last 100 years this International Women's Day
Do you know who invented St. Patrick's Day? Not many people do
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
