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.
1841 - The Cork Examiner, now The Irish Examiner, hits the streets for the first time
An Post celebrates 25 years of Father Ted with commemorative stamps
Brooklyn's lost Temperanceville was founded by an Irish man
When archaeologists find 5,700-year-old Neolithic house in Cork
Petition launched to get 1926 Irish census online by 2022
IFI collection features historic newsreels of Michael Collins and the 1916 Rising
Closed: Ireland of the Welcomes' magazine reader's survey
William Randolph Hearst, a real-life Irish American Citizen Kane
"Little Jimmy Murphy" - A United Irishmen song
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: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
WATCH: A colorful look at 1940 Dublin, "a city of romance and contrasts"
Kerryman leads charge to save Great Hunger collection in America
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
WATCH: Ellis Island - The gateway that welcomed 3.5 million Irish to America
Genealogy
