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.
This once popular Irish name is at risk of extinction
Grolier Club exhibition explores the Irish Literary Revival and national independence
How Woodrow Wilson deceived Irish America over 1916, ignored Casement’s execution
The fascinating jobs that no longer exist – revealed by Ireland’s 1926 Census
The Irish hands that built the Empire State Building
The poetry of Irish sayings and phrases
Woman slammed for her controversial pronunciation of popular Irish baby name
A look at Ireland a century ago - 1926 Census goes online for the first time
World Heritage Day: UNESCO sites and culture around the island of Ireland
Most read
- 1 Irish songs that celebrate when Nelson’s Pillar was blown up
- 2 Happy birthday Enya, one of the world's top-earning female artists
- 3 The best Celtic rock songs for your listening pleasure
- 4 On This Day: Msgr. Edward Flanagan, the Irish founder of Boys Town, passed away
- 5 LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
- 6 5 discoveries and inventions you never knew were made by the Irish
- 7 US-bound jet met by emergency crews after returning to Shannon Airport
- 8 On This Day: St. Brendan the Navigator, an early transatlantic voyager, died in 587
- 9 How the Irish pub conquered the world and what comes next
History
William James MacNeven: The father of American chemistry and Irish Republican rebel
Ireland's National Famine Commemoration to be hosted in former Galway workhouse today
LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
On This Day: Loyalist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan kill 34 in 1974
On This Day: St. Brendan the Navigator, an early transatlantic voyager, died in 587
Genealogy
