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.
Looted Bronze Age treasure trove of 900 coins and weapons returned from Britain
Irish Consul General Noel Kilkenny and historian Christine Kinealy discuss the Great Hunger at Rochester ‘Irish Gathering’
Scientists pinpoint organism which caused Ireland’s devastating 1845 potato blight
Thousands of Great Hunger victims died in Staten Island quarantine
Irish dance and sci-fi - Alan Kenefick choreographs Prodijig’s new show “Footstorm” - VIDEOS
Kennedy Leadership Forum Launched for JFK50 in New Ross, County Wexford
Ring of Cork Festival showcases community spirit for the Gathering
Descendants of the founders of the Transatlantic Cable gather on Valentia Island
Ten cats who can’t wait for their Gathering vacation to Ireland - PHOTOS
Most read
- 1 The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
- 2 Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
- 3 Traditional Irish recipes to make your summer fresh and tasty
- 4 On This Day: Five killed in Miami Showband Massacre in Co Down in 1975
- 5 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 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
