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.
TWAs, cheeky Irish bloke, and ‘the walk of shame’
Report from ‘Occupying Cork’ protest – camping out to return the power to the people
Irish wedding parties are not for the faint of heart
The Irish dancing scene in the United States compared - feeling part of an "authentic" Irish dance class
Are the Irish cultural or 'jackasses' - munching on snack through theatre performance appalls visitors
It’s hard to get to know a guy who just wants sex - Irish men really want no such thing as a first date
TLC’s ‘Irish-dancing Tweens’ – will this be a ‘Toddlers and Tiaras’, ‘Dance Mom’ disaster?
Taking advantage of the ‘Savage’ party scene – having the ‘craic’ in Galway city
Hunting down traditional music in Ireland – radio waves filled with Lady Gaga and Jedward
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
Why the Irish no longer mark Remembrance Day
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
Genealogy
