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.
Planning for my future and rediscovering my Irish roots
How to start your own Irish language conversation group
Fancy winning the trip of a lifetime to Ireland?
Jane Austen’s Irish lover
Famous Irish Family Trees: Imelda May
The story of the Irish Land Wars
What are the top 10 last names in Ireland today?
New documentary celebrates WB Yeats on the 150th anniversary of his birth
How a “Jolly Irishman” came to run a Japanese American internment camp
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