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.
LAST CHANCE: Spread the joy of Ireland this festive season with this unique Irish gift box
A child’s Christmas in a West Kerry village
Michael Malloy - the Irishman in The Bronx that could not be murdered
On This Day: James Hoban, the Kilkenny architect who designed the White House, died in 1831
Eyewitness account of a Great Famine workhouse on Christmas Day 1847
My ancestors as they were on the night of March 31st 1901
Ireland's top Christmas traditions that make the season
The Patrick Kavanagh poem that invokes Irish Christmas nostalgia
Ever wonder how many places in Ireland are called "bally"?
Most read
- 1 Come home to the West: Discover Ireland differently on Limerick Greenway
- 2 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 4 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 5 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 6 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 7 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 8 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 9 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
History
On This Day: The Irish Crown Jewels disappear from Dublin Castle in 1907
WATCH: An incredible tram ride through 1901 Belfast
WATCH: Irish dance of yesteryear, amazing historic footage
The Irish and Irish American signatories of the Declaration of Independence
175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Genealogy
