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.
Ten reasons you should marry an Irish farmer
One of Ireland’s greatest medieval treasures is now available online
Celtic chariot discovered by amateur with metal detector could win him a $1.3 million reward
800 Irish famine dead to be memorialized with Celtic Cross on Boston island
How Patriots quarterback great Tom Brady found his Irish roots
De Valera escaped English prison with a key in a cake 100 years ago today
Ireland's Great Hunger - what really happened to the food in Ireland
On This Day: Bloody Sunday erupts in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1972
Remarkable tales of American travelers unexpectedly finding their families on a tour of Ireland
Most read
- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 When Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to John F Kennedy
- 3 What does "amadán" mean?
- 4 How the keening tradition died out at Irish funerals
- 5 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 6 WATCH: Co. Clare town releases hilarious video to attract visitors
- 7 The top five tourist attractions in County Meath
- 8 How this North American couple discovered their ancestors on their Irish honeymoon
- 9 How James Joyce came to be revered in Trieste, Italy
History
Ireland's "forgotten" hunger striker, Joe Murphy, honored 106 years on in US
Interesting facts about James Joyce, the Irish literary giant
When Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to John F Kennedy
How the keening tradition died out at Irish funerals
Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
Genealogy