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.
Unique Irish spin on this classic baby name is on the rise in Ireland
WATCH: How glamorous was Galway in this 1957 tourism video?
On This Day: Charles Stewart Parnell married Kitty O’Shea
WATCH: Fascinating footage of an Irish community gathering peat 100 years ago
Keeping the ancient fires of Saint John's Eve burning bright in Ireland
Pride Month: Philip Treacy, legendary fashion designer
New York mum let her newborn choose her own name – and she ended up with an Irish classic
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Behind the Irish name: Mairead, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Irish starlet Maureen O'Hara died in the US in 2015
- 2 WATCH: A love story comes to a heartbreaking end in the 1916 Easter Rising
- 3 Stepping into history on the island of Inisheer
- 4 The amazing tale of Ireland's strongest man, Michael "Butty" Sugrue
- 5 Liam Neeson's best movies, ranked by the critics
- 6 On This Day: A US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison
- 7 WATCH: A visually stunning Irish travelogue from more than 60 years ago
- 8 Healthy Irish oat bread recipe from Roz Purcell
- 9 A guide to Tullaghogue Fort – ancient site of the O’Neill clan
History
The amazing tale of Ireland's strongest man, Michael "Butty" Sugrue
On This Day: A US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison
A guide to Tullaghogue Fort – ancient site of the O’Neill clan
WATCH: A visually stunning Irish travelogue from more than 60 years ago
In 1912, my Irish grandmother was booked to sail aboard The Titanic
Genealogy
