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.
Archaeologists uncover mystery fairies and a buried pagan cross
130 years of Irish life summed up in photos
Mad Dog Coll: the baby faced, blond Irish mobster
Famine Memorial Day bill introduced by Irish lawmakers
Ireland's Allies: America and the 1916 Easter Rising
7 celebrities you didn’t know had Irish roots
Family of 1916 British soldier has returned piece of Irish flag to Ireland
Seamus Heaney manuscript, 1922 Proclamation, Irish treasures for auction in Dublin
Did you know the Irish woodlands are in crisis?
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