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.
100-year old Irish American hero of D-Day recalls the battle
How the weather report from a Co Mayo lighthouse changed the D-Day invasion
The many, mighty Irish American Ryans of D-Day
How modern Ireland was created
The hidden link between hurling and ice hockey
Washington Ireland Program launches largest ever Class
When nationalists burned down an Irish castle during IRA hunger strikes
An emigrant's praise of Irish rain
The children's thank you book that highlighted Ireland's post-war aid to Germany
Most read
- 1 The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
- 2 Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
- 3 On This Day: Five killed in Miami Showband Massacre in Co Down in 1975
- 4 Glen Hansard's Dublin wake and funeral to be open to the public
- 5 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 6 WATCH: Dublin's buskers gather to say goodbye to Glen Hansard with the songs he gave them
- 7 From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
- 8 Ed Sheeran brings his charity home to Ireland with new cross-border music project
- 9 Wren’s Nest owner breaks silence on Glen Hansard’s final hours
History
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
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
History of Irish emigration: its tragedies and what we should embrace and celebrate
Genealogy
