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.
Why Michael Collins' hat was removed from a Dublin museum
Facebook series captures the history of Charlestown, Boston's Irish neighborhood
Michael Collins named as Britain’s second greatest foe, after George Washington
Young priest murdered by the Black and Tans remembered
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Feeney clan
On This Day: The Young Ireland rebellion against the British comes to a quick end
Tracing your ancestry - the Fahy clan
Men (and women) of Aran: Irish Embassy posts series of celebrities in Aran sweaters
TUNE IN: Virtual County Mayo gathering this Saturday!
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- 2 Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
- 3 The pros and cons of marrying an Irishman
- 4 Five things you didn't know about the Cliffs of Moher
- 5 Exploring Ireland's Gaeltachts: A revival of the Irish language
- 6 Traditional Irish recipes to make your summer fresh and tasty
- 7 On This Day: Five killed in Miami Showband Massacre in Co Down in 1975
- 8 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 9 WATCH: Dublin's buskers gather to say goodbye to Glen Hansard with the songs he gave them
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