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.
WATCH: Short film from 1910 proves the Irish emigrant's tale is timeless
Honoring the legacy of Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
Where is the oldest St. Patrick's Day celebration in the world?
This new twist on an old-fashioned Irish boy's name is rising in popularity
The history of the St. Patrick's Day shamrock ceremony at the White House
St. Patrick's real name was actually Maewyn Succat
A St. Patrick's Day public service announcement - It's "Paddy, Not Patty"!
One of the biggest St. Patrick's Day parades in the US steps off on Saturday
WATCH: Why Irish American Heritage Month matters more than ever
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: Frederick Douglass's powerful Cork speech denouncing racism was published in the Cork Examiner
Halloween in Ireland and its origins in the Celtic festival Samhain
LISTEN: Ireland’s greatest storyteller has the best spooky Halloween stories
Kinsale's Lady in White haunts Charles Fort
Search is on for people born in Ireland before the 1926 Census
Genealogy