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.
Where Does the Expression the Luck of the Irish Come From?
On This Day: IRA and British called a truce in the War of Independence in 1921
New book explores murder of Irish priest by KKK in 1920s Alabama
A deluxe corned beef hash recipe
Could you stand to inherit a Northern Irish woman’s unclaimed estate?
Are the Celts one of the ten lost tribes of Israel?
On This Day: The Irish Crown Jewels disappear from Dublin Castle in 1907
Irish-American woman seeks to find Korean War veteran's childhood friends
Walter Starkie, the Irishman in Spain who fought fascism and saved Jews from the Nazis
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
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone was sentenced to death in 1798
On This Day: Easter Rising hero Padraig Pearse born in 1879
A year of reckoning - Irish conscription during World War I
English Spy, Irish Eye: Capt John Baxter's map of Elizabethan espionage in Ireland
The Irishman who courted Hitler: Seán Russell’s deadly gamble for freedom
Genealogy