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.
Jane Austen’s Irish lover
Famous Irish Family Trees: Imelda May
The story of the Irish Land Wars
What are the top 10 last names in Ireland today?
New documentary celebrates WB Yeats on the 150th anniversary of his birth
How a “Jolly Irishman” came to run a Japanese American internment camp
Ancient gold rush discovered as UK and Ireland traded 4,500 years ago
Attorney General Loretta Lynch isn’t feeling the love from her Irish cousins
Explore the timeline of W.B. Yeats life on the 150th anniversary of his birth
Most read
- 1 Save big on your dream vacation to Ireland: CIE Tours reveals Black Friday deals
- 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: Ellis Island, American gateway to 3.5 million Irish immigrants, closed in 1954
Who was Arabella Kennedy?
Ancient monument found beneath the Hill of Tara provided more insight into Ireland's prehistoric past
On This Day: Outlaw Ned Kelly executed in Australia in 1880
This is why the Irish no longer mark Remembrance Day
Genealogy
