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.
Fighting for a sacred resting place for thousands of Famine dead on Staten Island
Oliver Cromwell was a "metrosexual" obsessed with his appearance
Researchers traced Irish fair skin back to India and the Middle East
How an ancient Irish treasure was found in a dumpster
10,000-year-old settlement found in Cork
A “litany of mishaps and disasters” lead up to the 1916 Easter Rising
The crucial facts about Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising in one easy infographic
Matthew McConaughey hopes to send his kids to the Gaeltacht
30 Irish Americans making the world a better place
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
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
On This Day: Queen Victoria, Ireland's "Famine Queen," died in 1901
Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising
Genealogy
