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.
Virtual tour of Knowth to bring public closer to archaeological site after 50 years of excavations
New Irish language website is launched - a unique insight into life in Northern Ireland
Recap of the 2011 North American Irish Dancing Championships - Part 3
Piers Morgan interviews Conan O’Brien - who is “very tall, very talented and very Irish” - VIDEO
Boston’s Irish Heritage Trail - tour through the evolution of the Irish throughout American history
The O'Shea Chaplin Academy of Irish Dance performs at Fenway Park
Fairfield Irish Festival celebrated their 24th Anniversary
Samuel Beckett’s silent masterpiece comes to New York - “Act Without Words II”
Largest ever stash of ancient Celtic coins discovered in Channel Islands
Most read
- 1 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 4 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 5 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 8 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
- 9 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
History
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
Genealogy