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.
Gaelic Games: A New Future in the City by the Bay
Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
Becoming Billy Elliot: Trent Kowalik's Journey from Championship Irish Dancer to Broadway Star
Martina Cole: Murder She Wrote
Hunger: The Last Days of Bobby Sands
Donald Keough's Keynote Address at Irish America's Business 100 Luncheon
The Ireland-Poland Connection
My Grandmother's Gaze
How Sweet It Is!
Most read
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- 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
The Black and Tans were not emptied out of British jails and many were Irish born
St. Patrick was a teenage slave on an Antrim hillside long before he was a saint
Michael Collins went to Downing Street in 1921 and came back branded a traitor
Cromwell reached Wexford in October 1649 and the town already knew what was coming
Ireland's druids were judges and doctors long before they were wizards
Genealogy
