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.
NYPD cop, Korean vet, drug dealer: Ballyshannon's Peter Daly has died
When an ancient ‘drowned forest’ was uncovered off Galway during a storm
Secret love letters to Jackie Kennedy from British ambassador found
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British Jewish leaders searched for the Ark of the Covenant at Tara
Secrets behind the Irish name - Patricks versus Paddys
50 years ago an Irish Aussie was the last man Australia ever executed
Ireland and the Paris Peace Conference: How Sinn Féin Waged a Diplomatic War
Irish Claddagh rings, their symbolism and story
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