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.
Celebrating the Irish who fought in the US Civil War this Memorial Day
Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
How Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was linked to Sligo’s cholera outbreak
The Roscommon Volunteers - The common men who freed Ireland
This Memorial Day, Irish Heritage Tree remembers those who have passed
The top ten attractions of County Offaly
How to choose which Irish instrument to learn how to play
What's your Irish County? County Meath
Five things you didn’t know about your Meath ancestors
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: Kevin Barry was executed in Dublin in 1920
Bantry Bay's rich history and world famous song
Happy Halloween! The Irish origins of today's traditions
On This Day: Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands during WWII, died in 1963
Exploring the truth and reality on Irish Famine coffin ships
Genealogy
