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Our unusual Irish ancestors – the poets, madmen and scoundrels who hail from...
By: DAVID SLATTERY Irish history is a constant reminder of how both amazing and modest we Irish actually are. READ MORE
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Irish the ‘forgotten white slaves’ says expert John Martin (IrishCentral)
By: IrishCentral Staff Writers The history of the African slave trade into the America’s is one that is well-documented as well as largely taught in American schools today.READ MORE
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Chief Justice John Roberts has strong ties to County Limerick (IrishCentral)
By: IrishCentral Staff Writers The man who swore President Obama into office on the steps of the US Capitol building last week, Chief Justice of the USA, John G Roberts, has strong County Limerick...
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The Gathering effect? Numbers traveling to Ireland from United States soar...
By: MICHELLE K SMITH From October to December 2012 the number of trips to Ireland from North America increased by 14.2 percent, which is up to 201,300 trips from the same time last year. The Central...
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DNA tests offered to parents to check if their child will be a redhead...
By: IrishCentral Staff Writers Couples will be offered the chance to see if they will produce redhead children. The DNA test, which will be available at the “Who Do You Think You Are?” exhibition in...
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An Irish Odyssey - the Great Famine, shipwreck, death, and heroic survival -...
By: MICHELLE K SMITH Documentary film ‘Famine and Shipwreck: An Irish Odyssey’ tells the gripping story of a group of Irish emigrants’ flight from the famine, their fight to survive shipwreck, and to...
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Travel back in time - take a trip through Dublin City in 1965 – VIDEO...
A screen shot from the videoFancy taking a scenic tour of 1960s Dublin? Well now you can with this newly released 40-year-old footage of Ireland’s capitalAccording to Liffeybanx, who published the...
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Treasure hunter continues quest to recover gold buried with Titanic’s sister...
By: IrishCentral Staff Writers It's a storyline worthy of Titanic director James Cameron, but it has the added benefit of being true.READ MORE
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Come for the Gathering and stay for extended Rose of Tralee International...
By: JANE WALSH Over five million people who have been to the Rose of Tralee International Festival since 1959 are being invited to return for an extended Rose Gathering from August 14-20 this year.READ...
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Latest fascinating facts and figures on Irish America revealed in Census data...
By: IrishCentral Staff Writers Did you know there is an Emerald Isle in North Carolina that has 3,702 residents?READ MORE
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Win two roundtrip tickets to Ireland with IrishCentral in our latest Facebook...
By: IrishCentral Staff Writers IrishCentral is giving you the chance to win two roundtrip tickets to Ireland!READ MORE
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Drinking and the death of rural Ireland - the demise of pubs, the drink...
Small rural pubs like this one in Templemore, Co Tipperary are closing at a rapid paceDon't you just love the way that story about Kerry County Councilor Danny Healy Rae's proposal on drink driving...
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The 1st February is close - here’s a guide to how to make a St Brigid's Cross...
By: BRENDAN PATRICK KEANE Brighid means the Exalted One in Irish, and The Woman, is a figure of intense power in Irish mythological and religious imagination. In Ireland the mythological, the pagan,...
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St. Brigid’s Day, 1st February, marks the start of Celtic spring (IrishCentral)
By: MAIREID SULLIVAN Imbolc, also known as the Feast of Brigid, on February 1 celebrates the arrival of longer, warmer days and the early signs of spring.READ MORE
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St. Brigid -- a pagan goddess turned christian saint in Ireland (IrishCentral)
By: SUSAN BYRON Spring in Ireland officially starts on St Brigid’s Day which is February the 1st in our calendar. However, this may not be accurate as this is a celebration that has its roots along way...
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Irish women should follow St. Brigid, not just St. Patrick (IrishCentral)
By: NIALL O'DOWD St. Brigid is the female equivalent of St. Patrick in Ireland, but there are no parades in her honor, and apart from the St. Brigid's Cross, her name is hardly known.READ MORE
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Catching up with the The Bronx bachelors -- Amazing that the Rose of Tralee...
Daithi O Se the host of the Bachelors of the Year in the Bronx and the Rose of TraleeI find it very hard to plan anything these days, being exiled in Cork for the winter might be having that effect on...
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Riverdance producers announce new show “Heartbeat of Home’ (IrishCentral)
By: IrishCentral Staff Writers The producers of Riverdance have announced their follow up show “Heartbeat of Home,“ which will premiere in Ireland in October of this year and is expected to have an...
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Irish Arts Center announces spring season including Declan O'Rourke and...
By: JANE WALSHE The US premiere of “These Halcyon Days” a new play by Deirdre Kinahan, an eight-show residency by Irish songwriter and singer Declan O’Rourke and the seventh Masters in Collaboration...
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Historic gold hoard of 700-year-old coins found under pub in Tipperary...
By: RACHAEL LAIRD A valuable hoard of gold coins dating back to almost 400 years have been discovered hidden in soil beneath the floorboards of a pub in Tipperary.READ MORE
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