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.
On This Day: Easter Rising leaders Seán MacDiarmada and James Connolly executed
Irish Mammy sayings that perfectly capture Mother’s Day
For Mother's Day: Things my Irish Mammy taught me
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The Irish man who tried to steal the British Crown Jewels
Ireland’s Mother’s Day traditions still stand apart
Emerald Magic! 20 baby names inspired by May’s beautiful birthstone
On This Day, 110 years ago Thomas MacDonagh, the Easter Rising leader, was executed
Celebrating the beloved song "The Foggy Dew" and its history
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 Kerry mourns Jamey Carney as Taoiseach condemns "filthy" online abuse against murdered New Yorker
- 6 WATCH: What did "new look" fashion look like in 1970s Ireland?
- 7 Behind the name: Róisín, the perfect choice for your "little rose"
- 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
