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.
The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
Did you know that St. Patrick is also the patron saint of Nigeria?
Weird and wonderful facts about St. Patrick and March 17
Secrets of each Celtic symbol and ancient astrology revealed
On This Day: John Holland, who designed the first submarine, is born in 1841
What makes Ireland’s national symbol the harp so special?
On This Day: Roger Casement's body was exhumed to be re-interred in Dublin
In Irish tradition, a Leap Year means the ladies get to propose!
Facts you should know about Guinness before St. Patrick's Day
Most read
- 1 US Embassy warns of "unintended consequences" as Ireland bans goods from Israeli settlements
- 2 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 3 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 4 Rosie O'Donnell says Irish neighbours 'worried' for her after weight loss
- 5 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 6 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 7 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 8 Irish American killed in 9/11 honored in new GAA Museum exhibit
- 9 Woman charged after "significant explosive device" intercepted in Co Monaghan
History
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it
Navigating nationalism and neutrality: Irish-American opinion and the 1916 Rising
Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland
Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
Genealogy
