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.
No Irish Homecoming: Holiday messages to missing exiles in America
Magical moment at Newgrange during Winter Solstice as sun breaks through
Top ten best Irish food and drink treats for Christmas
New publication tells amazing stories from Easter Rising trials
The biggest mistakes you can make while on vacation in Ireland
Oldest bog body in the world is that of sacrificed ancient Irish king (VIDEO)
Top ten Christmas traditions observed by the Irish (PHOTOS)
The winter solstice and the turning of the year catches me off guard
A starry Christmas milking the cows brings the stable in Bethlehem to mind
Most read
- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
German U-boat landed 28 rescued sailors in Kerry and Britain doubted Irish neutrality
The pub tune you hear tonight has been passed down for 2,000 years
The Belfast rebel poet who first called Ireland the Emerald Isle
Why JFK's Tyrone-born driver is still blamed for the President's death
She was 16 and armed to the teeth, the Cork rebel girl who faced down the Black and Tans
Genealogy