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.
400-million-year-old stones discovered in Galway stone wall
From criminals to cops - how Irish stereotypes evolved in America
When an Irish Paddy in the US took on the Ku Klux Klan
'The Crown’ Queen Elizabeth actress Claire Foy has humble Irish roots
How the US military killed an Irishman in San Fran with germ warfare
Ireland will finally officially commemorate the famine, thanks to a Dublin taxi driver
The magic of the tombs at Newgrange on this day the winter solstice
Store once visited by Michael Collins to close its doors
How one little girl inspired a New York journalist to restore faith in Santa
Most read
- 1 "Lost Lear": Moving Irish theater play exploring dementia to have its North American premiere
- 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
History
Imbolc marks the Irish pagan start of spring - something is stirring
The Celtic and Catholic traditions of St. Brigid and her cross
On This Day: Derry civil rights marchers shot and killed on Bloody Sunday
On This Day: Kitty O'Shea was born in London in 1846
On This Day: Luke Kelly of The Dubliners passed away in 1984
Genealogy
