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 Legend of Brigid
On This Day: Michael Collins exacts revenge on John “Shankers” Ryan
Celebrate Irish female filmmakers this month with these free online screenings
EVENT: Embrace the beauty of St. Brigit with Woman's Spirit Ireland tomorrow
How do you feel connected to the Irish and Ireland?
Share a cup of coffee with IrishCentral and show your support for our community
How St. Brigid’s native Kildare will celebrate the patron saint’s feast day
GIVEAWAY: Win an Irish Heritage Tree planted in Ireland with Moon Mná
What does it mean to be an Irish woman? Our community responds ahead of Brigid's Day
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
