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.
Neglect and death of 800 kids in Galway happened in plain sight
One US woman’s desperate 44-year search for her birth mother
What life was like for the sons and daughters of the Great Irish Famine
Burren geologist uncovers 320-million-year-old shark tooth
Connemara to commemorate nine fishermen who died bringing British landmine ashore
Listen to the earliest known recording of John F. Kennedy
Why is the song "Danny Boy" so popular? Experts explain
1,000-year-old religious route unearthed by archaeologists in Mayo
Top facts about Irish Americans from the US Census Bureau
Most read
- 1 Cobblestone Cottage: Stay in an authentic Irish cottage in Donegal
- 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
The Limerick man who became the mayor of Houston, Texas
National Irish Coffee Day: Learn the history of the tasty treat and how to make it
On This Day: Willie Clancy, Irish piper and folklorist, died in 1973
Ancient Sheela na Gigs, Irish statues of women exposing themselves, explained
On This Day: Arthur Guinness, founder of the Dublin brewery, died in 1803
Genealogy
