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.
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
O'Callaghan: What's in an Irish name?
Pope John Paul's shocking comment to President of Ireland Mary McAleese
The master of Glenveagh who may have faked his own death
Feeney: The Irish last name, its meaning, origin, and most well-known faces
The Limerick man who became the mayor of Houston, Texas
Gathering tales from descendants of the Great Hunger
Most read
- 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
