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.
Spanish Armada treasure discovered off the Sligo coast
Bob Dylan is massively influenced by Ireland’s folk singers The Clancy Brothers
How an elephant named Cindy came to be memorialized in Co Roscommon
On the anniversary of the 1798 rebellion we remember the Irish rebel, Betsy Gray
Illegally adopted Irish woman finally finds birth parents thanks to DNA testing
Scientists investigating authenticity of message in bottle from French girl drowned on the Titanic
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John F. Kennedy’s 60th inauguration anniversary honored with Irish Euro note
5 discoveries and inventions you never knew were made by the Irish
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 WATCH: The short Irish film starring Brendan Gleeson that won Martin McDonagh his first Oscar
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
