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.
Great Famine Voices Roadshow goes online amid COVID-19 crisis
Ireland’s greatest jewel heist - an inside job at Dublin Castle?
Ireland’s bubonic plague scare in 1900
My great-uncle's Easter Rising fight at the South Dublin Union
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
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- 1 The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
- 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 Emotional footage shows Glen Hansard’s final gig just hours before fatal crash
- 9 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
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