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.
At last my first Irish kiss - alas dear reader it’s the Blarney Stone
The secrets of Irish superstitions - failing my exams or getting myself pregnant
Pregaming, beer pong and the legal drinking age limit - Young-adult party cultures of Ireland and America
Do Irish fathers outshine their American counterparts?
Ellis Island footage of Irish arriving reminds us of where we all came from (VIDEO)
The Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry
Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
Most read
- 1 WATCH: Thousands used to flock Tipperary bone-setter's healing hands
- 2 US Embassy warns of "unintended consequences" as Ireland bans goods from Israeli settlements
- 3 Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day reporter who re-invented journalism
- 4 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 5 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 6 Rosie O'Donnell says Irish neighbours 'worried' for her after weight loss
- 7 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 8 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 9 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
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