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.
Up to half of Washington’s army was Irish and the history books wrote them out
Irish bog bodies suggest the Celts killed their kings when the harvests failed
The Connolly surname runs from the kings of Tara to a Glasgow comedy stage
Halloween belongs to the Pooka, the shape shifting trickster of Irish folklore
The Irish American artist who crafted Ogham gifts for Micheál Martin and Zohran Mamdani
The Black and Tans were not emptied out of British jails and many were Irish born
St. Patrick was a teenage slave on an Antrim hillside long before he was a saint
Michael Collins went to Downing Street in 1921 and came back branded a traitor
Ireland's druids were judges and doctors long before they were wizards
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- 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
WATCH: Rare 1940 film captures Dublin trams, Nelson’s Pillar and a packed Croke Park
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction
Mayo’s starving walked 15 miles for food and were told to wait until lunch was over
Making the dead welcome - All Souls’ Day in Ireland
On This Day: George Bernard Shaw, Dublin wit with a Nobel and an Oscar, dies in 1950
Genealogy
