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.
Raise a pint of Guinness to St. James on his feast day
Doctors, lawyers, teachers also died in Famine workhouses
The Irish goodbye becomes famous
Famous explorer to unveil plaque honoring historic 1976 re-enactment of St. Brendan's voyage
Churchill's closest confidant was a secretive self-hating Irish immigrant
New York City's own Brexit - Evacuation Day celebrations of 1783
Ireland should have a national day of commemoration for the Great Hunger
A schoolchild of the 1950s in Ireland looks back
How my Irish family inspired me to grow in life and business
Most read
- 1 Discover where nature meets heritage with CIE Tours' NEW Ireland Walking & Hiking tours
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
WATCH: Hozier delivers Irish history lesson during concert in Boston's Fenway Park
The siege of the Four Courts: The beginning of the Irish Civil War
On this day: 1959, Éamon de Valera becomes President of Ireland
The Dublin doctor who fought to end slavery and Irish racism in the US
WATCH: Summer on the sunny "Irish Riviera" nearly 90 years ago
Genealogy
