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.
How an ancient Irish treasure was found in a dumpster
10,000-year-old settlement found in Cork
A “litany of mishaps and disasters” lead up to the 1916 Easter Rising
The crucial facts about Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising in one easy infographic
Matthew McConaughey hopes to send his kids to the Gaeltacht
30 Irish Americans making the world a better place
When an American student found a 12th century Irish brooch on a Galway Beach
When an American student found a 12th century Irish brooch on a Galway Beach
Diary of an Irish rebel fighting in the 1916 Easter Rising
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
Sights and sounds along the prehistoric Shannon River Road
The Irish took sides in the Spanish Civil War
The remarkable tale of a Louth woman who fought in the American Civil War
The Irish legend of Finn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge
WATCH: An intimate, fascinating look into the history of Ireland’s folklife
Genealogy