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.
St. Patrick’s Day miracle - a New Zealander found a missing Iowan in Denver
WATCH: Paul Ryan learns surprise about his ancestry on ‘Finding Your Roots’
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From window tax to hats - Taxing Ireland through history
Was a Galway Fenian wrongly hanged in Canada 150 years ago?
Ten reasons you should marry an Irish farmer
One of Ireland’s greatest medieval treasures is now available online
Celtic chariot discovered by amateur with metal detector could win him a $1.3 million reward
800 Irish famine dead to be memorialized with Celtic Cross on Boston island
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: Meet Ireland’s last cycling postman in this 1975 interview
Irish Legend: The Song of Fionuala of the Children of Lir
WATCH: Dublin's nightclub scene and go-go dancing in 1970 Ireland
The sad decline of traditional Gaeltacht practices
On This Day: Edward Flanagan, the Irish founder of Boys Town, was born
Genealogy
