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.
When an Irish Paddy in the US took on the Ku Klux Klan
'The Crown’ Queen Elizabeth actress Claire Foy has humble Irish roots
How the US military killed an Irishman in San Fran with germ warfare
Ireland will finally officially commemorate the famine, thanks to a Dublin taxi driver
The magic of the tombs at Newgrange on this day the winter solstice
Store once visited by Michael Collins to close its doors
How one little girl inspired a New York journalist to restore faith in Santa
Merry Christmas! DNA testing could prove Santa Claus is buried in Kilkenny
Young Irish American leaders discovering Ancient Order of Hibernians
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
