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.
How the Catholic church misjudged the Easter Rising
A look inside Co Donegal's Molloy & Sons tweed company
An Irish blessing of light and hope
How did Hollywood get its name? It all started in Ireland
The Irish "mudcrawlers" who fled to Wales during the Great Hunger
Irish mother who served British soldiers tea during Troubles shot weeks later
The Irish-born publisher who documented America's Gilded-Age zeitgeist
The real history behind The Black and Tans in Ireland
The ancient Irish origins of the last name Doherty
Most read
- 1 What does "amadán" mean?
- 2 The Dublin spots featured in James Joyce's "Ulysses"
- 3 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 4 The top five tourist attractions in County Meath
- 5 How this North American couple discovered their ancestors on their Irish honeymoon
- 6 The top twenty books every Irish American should read
- 7 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Joyce clan
- 8 How James Joyce came to be revered in Trieste, Italy
- 9 Top "Father Ted" filming locations in Ireland
History
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
How James Joyce came to be revered in Trieste, Italy
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Joyce clan
Profiles in Pride: Declan Flynn, a death that changed Ireland
Michael Malloy - the Irishman in The Bronx that could not be murdered
Genealogy