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.
Remembering 9/11's first recorded victim, Irish American Father Mychal Judge
How Ireland's tradition of blind musicians led to a new vision for orchestral music
Irish man's Facebook post puts him in contact with long-lost relatives
Trump advisor Kimberly Guilfoyle’s political streak started with her County Clare father
Why you should go on a date with an Irish man
Father William Corby, the fighting chaplain of Notre Dame
On John Ford's anniversary, remembering his Valentine to Maureen O'Hara
1841 - The Cork Examiner, now The Irish Examiner, hits the streets for the first time
An Post celebrates 25 years of Father Ted with commemorative stamps
Most read
- 1 The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
- 2 Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
- 3 Five things you didn't know about the Cliffs of Moher
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes to make your summer fresh and tasty
- 5 On This Day: Five killed in Miami Showband Massacre in Co Down in 1975
- 6 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 7 WATCH: Dublin's buskers gather to say goodbye to Glen Hansard with the songs he gave them
- 8 From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
- 9 "Such a massive loss to his son" Glen Hansard singing has fans in tears
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