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.
Born again as I walked the ancient land of Ireland
How America saved Patrick Pearse’s school St. Enda’s
Stranger in my own land -- Why Ireland is not for me, says returned emigrant
A 16-year-old's dilemma - "Am I Irish or Australian?"
8th century Irish brain surgeons saw cancer and TB
Growing up in 1950s Catholic Ireland wasn’t all bad - there were happy times too
Which town called Dublin in America is the most Irish?
Nazi death camps held 50 Irish it has been revealed, only 28 survived
Best-selling Irish novel of all time, the Soviets loved it
Most read
- 1 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 2 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 3 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 4 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 5 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 6 Summer takes a time-out! Cooler rainy days are on the way
- 7 The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
- 8 2027 inflation 'will be higher than forecast', warns Bank of Ireland
- 9 New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland
History
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it
Navigating nationalism and neutrality: Irish-American opinion and the 1916 Rising
Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland
Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
Genealogy