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.
Offbeat Irish festivals around the Emerald Isle in 2011 - SEE PHOTOS
Dublin will be taken over by redheads as the first Gingerfest comes to town
Calls for St. Patrick’s Day to be made a public holiday in Northern Ireland
Wrongly-charged Irishman last person to be hanged in Rhode Island
The guide to the perfect Celtic wedding
The top ten Irish people of all time - SEE PHOTOS
IrishCentral’s top Irish food products - SEE PHOTOS
Celebration of the Irish tricolor set for Waterford City
Old wives tales from Ireland still going strong
Most read
- 1 Paul McCartney's Irish roots trace back to a small County Monaghan townland
- 2 Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles both descend from High King Brian Boru
- 3 The day 38 IRA prisoners escaped the Maze in the biggest jailbreak in British history
- 4 Why Eavan Boland's emigration poem still speaks to the Irish abroad
- 5 WATCH: 1960s short film follows adventures of group of boys in Ireland
- 6 Paul McCartney's Irish roots lead back to a quiet corner of County Monaghan
- 7 Meet the Byrne clan, Ireland's seventh most common name with a king in its past
- 8 Irish soda farls are the easy four ingredient fix for a cosy autumn breakfast
- 9 Reveling in the Wild Atlantic Way and the west of Ireland's people
History
Chalice from Joseph Plunkett and Grace Gifford's Kilmainham wedding goes on public display
WATCH: 1960s short film follows adventures of group of boys in Ireland
Thomas Ashe, the Kerry schoolteacher who died on hunger strike in 1917
Paul McCartney's Irish roots lead back to a quiet corner of County Monaghan
The day 38 IRA prisoners escaped the Maze in the biggest jailbreak in British history
Genealogy