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.
The history and origins of traditional Irish music
Native Irish tree planting farm located on a former secret WWII airbase
Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
Did Ireland’s ancient August Lughnasa games influence the Olympics?
The "Bad Bridgets" - forgotten Famine era single pregnant women who fled to America
The forgotten righteous Jew who saved thousands of Irish lives during the famine
Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
Monaghan census records from the 1500s go online
500 child skeletons in workhouse mass grave tell of Great Hunger struggles
Most read
- 1 Seamus Heaney's alma mater draws from the past to inspire today’s writers and poets
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
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