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.
Only in Ireland! Half-goat half-sheep (VIDEO)
Struggle for Irish Independence, the Howth gun-running incident
An astronaut’s guide to Ireland with Commander Chris Hadfield
Ten ways to cure Irish homesickness
Speak like a proper Irishman with these “Culchie” definitions
500 Vikings descend on Dublin for the Battle of Clontarf 1,000th anniversary fest
Details of poison gas attack on Irish soldiers in World War I emerge
4,500 year-old path discovered near Galway Bay used by Celts
Traveling 503 islands off the coast of Ireland
Most read
- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
On this day in 1990, Mary Robinson became the first woman elected president of Ireland
Ireland’s answer to the Bayeux Tapestry is just an hour from London
LISTEN: "Making Empire" and the Irish with historian Jane Ohlmeyer
Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
Genealogy
