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: Brian Boru, legendary High King of Ireland, died in 1014
Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
Ireland's oldest and most charming pubs
New book explores the overlooked story of Bridget Kennedy
On This Day: Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816
Powerful poem on what it means to be an Irish American in Ireland
The daughter of Irish immigrants who survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic disasters
WATCH: Meet Ireland’s last cycling postman in this 1975 interview
County Mayo Titanic survivor Delia McDermott
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- 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