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.
Irish language education service achieves the status of third-level institution
Historic 1916 Rebel sites to be saved from destruction
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In Focus: Cathleen Dower, founder of Fitzgerald School of Irish Dance, NJ
An Irishman running scared with the bulls in Pamplona
Jean Butler hails Riverdance as Irish dancers hit the Guinness Book of Records
The top ten must-see historic and cultural sites in Ireland
Descendants of orphaned famine emigrants in tears as they return to Ireland
Most read
- 1 Bruce Springsteen and his proud County Kildare heritage
- 2 The Irish cook who became America's most dangerous woman
- 3 Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles both descend from High King Brian Boru
- 4 Why Eavan Boland's emigration poem still speaks to the Irish abroad
- 5 Discover your Walsh family roots in Ireland's fourth most common name
- 6 Meet the Byrne clan, Ireland's seventh most common name with a king in its past
- 7 Behind the name: Claire, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
- 8 Reveling in the Wild Atlantic Way and the west of Ireland's people
- 9 Irish soda farls are the easy four ingredient fix for a cosy autumn breakfast
History
Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles both descend from High King Brian Boru
Meet the Byrne clan, Ireland's seventh most common name with a king in its past
Bruce Springsteen and his proud County Kildare heritage
North Brother Island's most famous resident was an Irish cook named Mary Mallon
The Irish cook who became America's most dangerous woman
Genealogy
