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.
The sad decline of traditional Gaeltacht practices
Could this be the oldest known video of Ireland?
On This Day: Msgr. Edward Flanagan, the Irish founder of Boys Town, passed away
This rare floral Irish baby girl’s name is the perfect choice for summer arrivals
American Irish Historical Society announces first annual golf outing and Irish celebration!
Irish adventure awaits at the 2025 Dublin Irish Festival in Dublin, Ohio
Oasis gives subtle nod to Irish roots on stage at first reunion show
WATCH: Forgotten Ireland, captured on 16mm film 70 years ago
This Irish baby girl name you’ve never heard before is on the rise
Most read
- 1 What you should know about Bronwyn Fitzsimons, Maureen O’Hara’s daughter
- 2 WATCH: These epic Irish dancing fails are absolutely hilarious
- 3 The top Irish filming locations from "The Banshees of Inisherin"
- 4 The "P.S. I Love You" filming locations you can visit in Ireland
- 5 Police learn where Glen Hansard spent final hours between Wren’s Nest and fatal crash
- 6 Ireland's most popular counties and their top attractions
- 7 Irish politicians trying to ensure Trump stays away from parliament – and a Connolly clash
- 8 First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
- 9 WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
History
When the Blasket Islanders were evacuated to mainland in 1953
On This Day: Thomas Francis Meagher, the greatest Irishman in American history, was born
On This Day: Easter Rising rebel Sir Roger Casement was executed in Britain
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
WATCH: Poignant short Irish film shows the reality of living in rural Ireland in 1974
Genealogy
