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.
LISTEN: When the potato blight hit and terror ensued during Ireland's Famine
The changing identity of Irish and Irishness in a global context
Coming home - following my dream to visit Ireland, where I belong
The Irish flag was flown for the first time 170 years ago in Waterford
Saints named me - my very Irish names and its legacy
435-million-year-old starfish fossil found in Galway
Irish, Catholic American - why I’m part of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
Winona Ryder discovers her Irish roots after ancestor's secret adoption
LISTEN: Did the Irish of 1845 see the Great Hunger coming?
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: William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize in 1923
The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
On This Day: Five brave Sullivan brothers killed on same day during WWII
Lance-Corporal Michael O’Leary, a true Irish WWI hero
Family historians urged to check out 1911 census
Genealogy
