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.
From "The Quiet Man" to "The Crying Game" - love of Irish movies at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
Getting to know Galway City – From university to top pubs and live Irish music
Getting the feel for Galway city's torrential rain, crowded pubs and all
Studying Irish literature in sunny Galway City - life is sweet for this Gaelic Girl
Navigating the world of Irish food as an American - sampling the famous black pudding
From Celtic mythology to surfing on the west coast – taking advantage of all Ireland has to offer
This could be paradise – the joys of walking in County Kerry
“It’s not what you had in mind, but what you find!” - getting to know the poet Ciaran Carson
Traveling to Antrim- the wild coastline, history of “The Troubles” and the Titanic explored
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
