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.
Blarney Stone myths rubbished by Scottish geologists
Replant your Irish roots this St. Patrick's Day
Irish baby names getting more difficult to pronounce
How the world remembers the Irish Famine
WATCH: An incredible tram ride through 1901 Belfast
World War II Navy hero who rescued JFK dies aged 97
17 things you didn’t know about Irish surnames
Bronze Age shipwreck found on shore of Mayo after storm
Dear St. Patrick, thanks for Purgatory
Most read
- 1 "Irish? Catholic? Join Here": Finding community with The Ancient Order of Hibernians
- 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: 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
AIHS marks 180th anniversary of Ireland's Great Hunger with lecture series
Albert F. Coyle: The forgotten Irish American hero of the Holocaust
Genealogy
