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.
The Irish ancestry of Claire Cronin, US Ambassador to Ireland
The musical instruments of ancient Ireland
Myths and legends from Ireland’s five longest rivers
Britain's greatest flying ace in World War II was an Irishman
The Irish legend of the Leprechaun remembered
Irish children's 90-year-old Santa letters found in chimney
What is the Irish Christmas season tradition of Daisy Day?
Forget Hades and Loki, who was the Celtic god of death?
TUNE IN: The magical Newgrange Winter Solstice 2021 live stream
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
A guide to Ireland’s forgotten castles and abbeys
How Germans bid to purchase Cliffs of Moher land in 1964 and it was almost accepted
WATCH: Incredible remastered footage of Michael Collins in color
Ulysses S. Grant, the first US president to ever visit Ireland, died on this day in 1885
Brendan Behan discovers New York City
Genealogy
