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.
First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time
This unique Irish name was given to less than three baby boys last year
Pregnant woman reveals the Irish name she won’t choose because it’s "so popular in the US"
11 wedding ceremony readings by famous Irish writers
James Joyce quotes on love and life in honor of Bloomsday
How WB Yeats' connection to Sligo stretches back through generations
"Buried silently and sadly" - The Irish Famine dead of 1847
This vintage former nickname is on the rise amongst parents in Ireland
National Archives takes Census 1926 on tour across Ireland
Most read
- 1 Famous film and TV locations in Ireland you can actually visit
- 2 Irish famine emigrant's emotional letter home to Mom and Dad in 1850
- 3 Remembering Countess Markievicz, the rebel who died 99 years ago today
- 4 Saints, sailors, distilleries and demesnes, County Offaly has it all
- 5 WATCH: What did "new look" fashion look like in 1970s Ireland?
- 6 Behind the name: Róisín, the perfect choice for your "little rose"
- 7 Kerry mourns Jamey Carney as Taoiseach condemns "filthy" online abuse against murdered New Yorker
- 8 Antrim tragedy: Deaths of girl, 8, and two adults being treated as a murder-suicide
- 9 Meet the artists behind Ireland's first vermouth, now landing in America
History
The Leitrim orphan girl who became New Orleans' "Mother of Orphans"
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it.
Irish famine emigrant's emotional letter home to Mom and Dad in 1850
Remembering Countess Markievicz, the rebel who died 99 years ago today
Behind the name: Róisín, the perfect choice for your "little rose"
Genealogy
