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.
Ulysses S. Grant, the first US president to ever visit Ireland, died on this day in 1885
The ten worst times to have lived in Ireland
On this day: Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan "accidentally" flies to Dublin instead of California
Where Does the Expression the Luck of the Irish Come From?
On This Day: IRA and British called a truce in the War of Independence in 1921
New book explores murder of Irish priest by KKK in 1920s Alabama
A deluxe corned beef hash recipe
Could you stand to inherit a Northern Irish woman’s unclaimed estate?
Are the Celts one of the ten lost tribes of Israel?
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
