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.
What presidents, poets and celebrities say about the Irish
3,000-year-old bog body is likely to be sacrificed Irish king
In Focus: Irish American New Yorker offers ‘free listening’ in Central Park
Irish dating advice - the top ten things that Irish women hate in a man
Irish accent ranked as the sixth sexiest in the world – POLL
Diary of an intern - ten things I learned at IrishCentral
Historian calls for 28 children killed in 1916 Easter Rising to be remembered
Irish traditional weddings are still en vogue - new survey
Top ten tips - things you should know before vacationing in Ireland - PHOTOS
Most read
- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
On This Day: Frank Patterson, the Tipperary tenor who sang for the Pope and for Pyongyang
Bob Geldof turns 75 and the Live Aid myth deserves a second look
On This Day: Five die in Guildford pub bombings 1974
The old Irish coins in your drawer that could be worth up to €35,000
The murderous highwayman behind Ireland's beloved "Whiskey in the Jar"
Genealogy