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 prolific bard of Erin, Thomas Moore
Five books for researching your Irish family history
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The O'Brien Clan
How the most Irish town in America was built on seaweed
Discovery of 20-year long rainfall in Ireland in 2345BC
The real Irish woman behind one of the most iconic images from Ireland's Famine
All about the Irish surname O'Hara
What does "amadán" mean?
The top twenty books every Irish American should read
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 Dublin Irish Festival returns to Ohio with music, dance and more
- 4 Remembering Countess Markievicz, the rebel who died 99 years ago today
- 5 Mucros Weavers keeps Irish weaving in motion
- 6 Jamey Carney murder: Legal battle to bring suspect to Ireland could take months
- 7 Saints, sailors, distilleries and demesnes, County Offaly has it all
- 8 WATCH: What did "new look" fashion look like in 1970s Ireland?
- 9 Behind the name: Róisín, the perfect choice for your "little rose"
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
