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.
A new perspective on my Irish roots, thanks to the Irish Family History Centre at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Lance-Corporal Michael O’Leary, a true Irish WWI hero
This unusual Irish name is trending in the US but given to fewer than 3 babies in Ireland
Belfast City Council marks hidden burial ground from former Belfast Workhouse
On This Day: Easter Rising leaders Seán MacDiarmada and James Connolly executed
Irish Mammy sayings that perfectly capture Mother’s Day
For Mother's Day: Things my Irish Mammy taught me
Happy Birthday, Bono! Celebrate with U2's best songs
The Irish man who tried to steal the British Crown Jewels
Ireland’s Mother’s Day traditions still stand apart
Most read
- 1 Irish songs that celebrate when Nelson’s Pillar was blown up
- 2 Happy birthday Enya, one of the world's top-earning female artists
- 3 The best Celtic rock songs for your listening pleasure
- 4 On This Day: Msgr. Edward Flanagan, the Irish founder of Boys Town, passed away
- 5 LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
- 6 5 discoveries and inventions you never knew were made by the Irish
- 7 On This Day: St. Brendan the Navigator, an early transatlantic voyager, died in 587
- 8 US-bound jet met by emergency crews after returning to Shannon Airport
- 9 How the Irish pub conquered the world and what comes next
History
William James MacNeven: The father of American chemistry and Irish Republican rebel
Ireland's National Famine Commemoration to be hosted in former Galway workhouse today
LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
On This Day: Loyalist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan kill 34 in 1974
On This Day: St. Brendan the Navigator, an early transatlantic voyager, died in 587
Genealogy
