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.
WATCH: Heartwarming interview captures the wonder of real Irish storytelling
I took a DNA test and was shocked at what I discovered
On This Day: Titanic arrives in Southampton for her maiden voyage
We need more Lilys - Celebrating the strength of a gentle Irish grandmother
Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
My trip to America's "most Irish" town
Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
On This Day: 146 people lost their lives in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
Tír Na nÓg - The legend of Oisín, Niamh and land of eternal youth
The storytelling keepers of Ireland's rich folklore heritage
WATCH: A Christmas shopping sneak peek in 1963 Dublin
The eight sacred Celtic holidays of the year
From Dublin drunk to Burmese monk - the Irishman who became the first western Buddhist monk
Genealogy