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.
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
The Linen Queen by Patricia Falvey
Eating for Ireland by Tom Doorley
Ireland’s Animals: Myths, Legends & Folklore by Niall Mac Coitir
Employment and health benefits for US citizens moving to Ireland
Most read
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- 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: Bram Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," was born in 1847
On This Day: IRA bomb kills 12 at Enniskillen Remembrance Day service in 1987
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
Genealogy
