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 St Louis Irish An Unmatched Celtic Community
The Triumph and the Tragedy
A Drink with Shane MacGowan
This Place on Third Avenue The New York Stories of John McNulty
An Excerpt from Galway Bay
From dancing champ to Broadway star in 'Billy Elliot' - at age 13
Murder She Wrote
The Garden of Martyrs
More Riffs Rants and Raves
Most read
- 1 The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
- 2 Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
- 3 On This Day: Five killed in Miami Showband Massacre in Co Down in 1975
- 4 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 5 Glen Hansard's Dublin wake and funeral to be open to the public
- 6 WATCH: Dublin's buskers gather to say goodbye to Glen Hansard with the songs he gave them
- 7 From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
- 8 Ed Sheeran brings his charity home to Ireland with new cross-border music project
- 9 WATCH: The short Irish film starring Brendan Gleeson that won Martin McDonagh his first Oscar
History
Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
Cork-born Mother Jones, the "most dangerous woman in America," inspired James Connolly
On this day in 1915, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was laid to rest in Dublin, igniting a revolution
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
History of Irish emigration: its tragedies and what we should embrace and celebrate
Genealogy
