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.
The meaning behind April's Claddagh birthstone, the diamond
Famine immigrants' desperate search for the missing
Bog bodies are kings sacrificed by Celts
Born again as I walked the ancient land of Ireland
The remarkable tale of a Louth woman who fought in the American Civil War
How America saved Patrick Pearse’s school St. Enda’s
Stranger in my own land -- Why Ireland is not for me, says returned emigrant
A 16-year-old's dilemma - "Am I Irish or Australian?"
8th century Irish brain surgeons saw cancer and TB
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