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.
Top facts about Irish Americans from the US Census Bureau
The surprising American stars with Irish roots
Burned at the stake was the original punishment for blasphemy in Ireland
John F. Kennedy Jr. had a playdate with a killer
Irish American women who changed the United States
Crazy Irish stories! The Irish man who stole the Crown Jewels to a real-life Robinson Crusoe
In Ireland, the county you are from is of vital importance
The Irish War Cry and what it meant to the Celtic tribes in battle
Would you try ‘Bog butter’ from 3,000 BC?
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
The incredible life of "The Woman of Aran" - Born on this day in 1894, she lived to 109
On This Day: The Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed in 1985
On This Day: William Pearse, Easter Rising rebel, was born
On This Day: William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize in 1923
The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
Genealogy
