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.
Waist-high snowfall in 822 AD led to Irish famine and death
Irish American Civil War soldier’s last letter home, found on his dead body
Retracing my Irish great-grandmother’s steps in her little village of New York City
Dublin woman discovers she was born into Nazi breeding program
Remembering ‘Longest Day’ author Cornelius Ryan
Rare Irish silver from Cromwell era to be auctioned in England
Keeping the home fires burning - the Irish thatched cottage
Michael Collins and his Twelve Apostles --new bestseller book by Tim Pat Coogan
The Celtic Cross, then and now
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