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: John McCormack, tenor and papal count, was born in Westmeath
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
On This Day: W.B. Yeats was born in 1865 in Dublin
When 30,000 attended a Fenian Irish picnic in New York City in 1865
The Irish duo who murdered 16 people and sold the cadavers
Reinventing a classic - Irish coffee toffee recipe
How do you pronounce Liam? American nurse shocked to learn one unique way
Ways you know you grew up in the Irish countryside
WATCH: American gobsmacked by Irish sport of hurling in 1920s film
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
Daniel O’Connell Commemorative Programme announced
Do you know who’s in your family’s Glasnevin Cemetery plot? I didn’t
On this day: Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan "accidentally" flies to Dublin instead of California
WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
WATCH: A colorful look at 1940 Dublin, "a city of romance and contrasts"
Genealogy
