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.
"We're Irish!" Sharon Stone speaks warmly of her Irish roots
National Dolphin Day: Remembering Fungie the Dolphin, my hometown treasure
How the Irish impacted Abraham Lincoln, shot down 161 years ago this day
Fascinating pensions records pre-Easter Rising and beyond reveals a wealth of Irish history
Child killed in 1916 Easter Rising honored with headstone over a century later
WWII "Éire" sign to be visible to passengers flying into Dublin Airport
Locals fight for “human rights” of Boyne River near Newgrange under threat of pollution
Irish castle brings you back in time with the day-to-day Lord of the Castle experience
Statue of Irish-born slave owner taken down in Baltimore, Maryland
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 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 5 Glen Hansard's Dublin wake and funeral to be open to the public
- 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
