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.
Behind the name: Claire, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
How WB Yeats' connection to Sligo stretches back through generations
What's your Irish County? County Sligo
What's your Irish County? County Roscommon
Famine era letters to the US document the horrors of Ireland's Great Hunger
What's your Irish County? County Monaghan
"That is hard to hear" - Aisling Bea feeling "a little bit shameful" after learning family history
How to plan a traditional Irish wedding (with a modern twist)
Horrific tale of a Mayo village's death during the Great Famine
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
Search is on for people born in Ireland before the 1926 Census
On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
How the Irish ward off evil spirits at Halloween
Ireland's strangest and scariest ghost sightings and apparitions
The traditional matchmaking games Irish girls would play at Halloween
Genealogy
