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.
This new twist on an old-fashioned Irish boy's name is rising in popularity
The history of the St. Patrick's Day shamrock ceremony at the White House
St. Patrick's real name was actually Maewyn Succat
One of the biggest St. Patrick's Day parades in the US steps off on Saturday
WATCH: Why Irish American Heritage Month matters more than ever
Grab your tickets for St Patrick's Day Celebration in Hudson Valley!
Sudocrem has landed in the US: Fascinating history of Ireland's national treasure
Alternative Irish spellings for 23 names we know and love
Irish American Heritage Month proclaimed (a bit later than usual)
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
- 3 50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 5 Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
- 6 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 7 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 8 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
- 9 Delicious Irish recipes for Easter Sunday
History
Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
Ireland's 'American Presidents Trail' confirmed as part of America250 programme
110th anniversary of Ireland's Easter Rising to be marked in Dublin on Sunday
Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy