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 Shamrock Children: German refugees who found shelter in Ireland after WWII
On VE Day, recalling this Irishman's horrific World War II experience
On This Day: Easter Rising leader Seán Heuston was executed
VE Day, the end of WWII in Europe, was marked with civil disturbances around Dublin
What about the Irish? NYC schools get Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day
Ireland’s oldest grave is more than 9,000 years old
WATCH: Trinity symposium discusses Irish partition and its legacies
“Darkness is over” - Celtic Bealtaine celebrated in Ireland with ancient ceremony
Celtic myth still hold influence on Australian baby names in 2021
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
WATCH: Irish history expert Davy Holden on the Irish-American Athletic Club
A slice of old Ireland - Mary Blake of Ennistymon
On This Day: IRA bombs in London kill 11 people, seven horses in 1982
WATCH: Snapshots of Irish history from British Pathé
WATCH: Two famous golfers hit Ireland's greens in gorgeous 1970s travelogue
Genealogy
