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 light skin of the Irish can be traced to India and the Middle East
Boys Town founder Fr. Flanagan warned Irish Church about abuse
Historians find possible mass grave of Spanish Armada victims in Co. Clare
The tale of the Swede and the Finn who fought at the GPO in the 1916 Rising
Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ based on an ancient Irish story
Getting off the American treadmill to live the Irish dream
The funniest named towns and places in Ireland
Jimmy Gralton, only Irishman ever deported to America from Ireland
Cobh to mark centenary of RMS Lusitania sinking
Most read
- 1 American writers flourish at Queen's University Belfast’s Seamus Heaney Centre
- 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