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.
What's your Irish County? County Cork
Ancestors in Cork? New online records lets you find their graves
What's your Irish County? County Clare
Is your family from Cavan? Earliest Irish census records revealed online
On This Day: Irish American crooner Bing Crosby is born
On This Day, the man behind "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," Ernest Ball was born
Newly released Classic Irish Postcard Collection gives a wonderful look into Ireland's past
What you should know about The Orchard County, County Armagh
County Armagh "road-bowling" is a quintessential summer tradition
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
Galway to host 2026 National Famine Commemoration
Ancient Christmas traditions that are still followed in Ireland
WATCH: Vintage Irish tourism video shows off the best bits of Ireland
When JFK reassured a little girl that the Russians would not kill Santa
WATCH: Dubliners brave a Christmas Day swim over 60 years ago
Genealogy