
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.

Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising
The London Jew gave his life for Ireland during Easter 1916
WATCH: Vintage footage of First Holy Communion in 1930s Ireland
LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
On This Day: Kathleen Daly Clarke, first female Lord Mayor of Dublin, died in 1972
The Irish soldier who went on to rule a small kingdom in India
The Easter Rising and a day at the races for my Irish grandfather
Early Irish hunter-gatherers were dark skinned with blue eyes, says expert
The Black Irish - what are the truths and what are the myths?
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

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
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
WATCH: Remarkable footage from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1940s
Genealogy
