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.
On This Day: A bronze life-size statue of Fungie the Dolphin unveiled in Dingle
Brother of key Irish Famine museum supporter backs re-opening
The Irish ancestry of Claire Cronin, US Ambassador to Ireland
Myths and legends from Ireland’s five longest rivers
Britain's greatest flying ace in World War II was an Irishman
The Irish legend of the Leprechaun remembered
Forget Hades and Loki, who was the Celtic god of death?
TUNE IN: The magical Newgrange Winter Solstice 2021 live stream
Achill Oral Histories record the lives of this Mayo island people
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
