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.
New book by James Morrisey focuses on life long ago on Galway islands
Archaeological dig on Spike Island reveals 250 unmarked burial plots of criminals
Irish sculptor turns his craftsmanship to jewelry based on Ireland’s myth and culture
Amazing guide on how to be a good wife in Ireland in 1938
"Riverdance" founders sue to stop unauthorized "Riverdance" shows in Russia
Parkinson's sufferers demonstrate therapeutic power of Irish set dancing
In Focus: Killy Schlittenhardt, Miss Irish America 2013
4,000 Irish orphan girls sent to Sydney during the Great Hunger to be remembered
Bloomberg news service reports Irish Gathering a huge success
Most read
- 1 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 4 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 5 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 8 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
- 9 "No Welcome for Trump" - Dublin and Doonbeg protests set for US President's visit
History
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
Genealogy
