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.
Relishing "Mná na hÉireann" by Kate Bush for St. Brigid's Day
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St. Brigid Day is now a bank holiday! Move over, St. Patrick!
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Ireland's little-known Mermaid Saint
On This Day: “The Playboy of the Western World” opens at Dublin's Abbey Theater
The unique Irish boy name given to three babies in Ireland last year
Nirvana's Kurt Cobain's work influenced by his Irish roots, say family
Recalling my emigrant journey to London from rural Ireland in 1960
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