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.
Seven hard-won lessons from searching for my Irish ancestors
The Battle of Waterloo and the Irish
Remembering the Irish role in the Battle of Waterloo
How Bennett Cerf got James Joyce’s Ulysses, the ultimate banned book, into the US
Campaign calls for London museum to return Irish giant’s stolen bones
Extraordinary story of Titanic’s second officer Charles Herbert Lightroller
Meet the US cop who found his long-lost Irish mother through a DNA test
75th D-Day anniversary - Irish WWII vets remember
Beautiful spots in Ireland that every tourist should visit
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
