
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.

On This Day: Easter Rising leader Con Colbert was executed
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians gives back to our communities
Why is Derry also called Londonderry?
On This Day: The Lusitania sunk off the coast of County Cork
What's your Irish County? County Derry
WATCH: What do these Dubliners from 1982 really think of Cork people?
Ireland's most beautiful landscape - Beara, West Cork
Top interesting facts about County Cork
On This Day: Micheál O’Hanrahan, Easter Rising leader, was executed
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

Irish architect of a US icon: James Hoban’s design legacy in Washington's White House
4,000 women from workhouses in Ireland became Australian pioneers
Haunting Irish mugshots from 1850s home in NYC Library
IFI collection features historic newsreels of Michael Collins and the 1916 Rising
Ireland's Gaelic games: A deep dive into Irish culture and heritage
Genealogy
