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.
Galway's victims of the Great Hunger and exiled immigrants recalled
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
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