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.
How to apply for an Irish passport
Treat her to a little bit of Ireland this Mother's Day with a unique Irish gift box
Ireland's ancient Celtic festival of Bealtaine begins today, May 1
Diary of Co Armagh soldier, 17, killed at Battle of the Somme
40 children died in the Easter Rising, some with the taste of chocolate in their mouths
The 1916 Easter Rising - How Irish America and Ireland saw it very differently
How the 1916 Easter Rising gave way to Ireland's War of Independence
On This Day: "The Quiet Man" actor Arthur Shields died in 1970
Celebrate Ireland's oldest trees with Irish Heritage Tree
Most read
- 1 GIVEAWAY: Win VIP trip to the largest Celtic festival in the world, Milwaukee Irish Fest!
- 2 A history of the popular Irish song "The Galway Girl"
- 3 WATCH: This 1983 Irish Spring Soap ad’s accents will make you laugh
- 4 WATCH: When Dolly Parton sang an impromptu gig in a Co Kerry pub
- 5 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 6 On This Day: Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese
- 7 Bambie Thug finishes sixth at Eurovision, Ireland's highest finish in 24 years
- 8 A local's guide to ten of Galway's best-kept secrets
- 9 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry