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.
Tragic Irish American Civil War hero who ended his life as a “Ragman”
Top five Irish fraternal orders you need to include in your family history search
Ulster and the Scottish Killing Times, when covenanters were hunted and executed
Using historical dog licences to trace your Irish ancestors
Forget bar brawls check out this long list of 18th century Irish dueling rules
America’s first “anchor baby” was an Irish girl named Julia Lynch (VIDEO)
Drones help US historian find Irish archaeological treasures
Skeletons of 1860 cholera epidemic found under Dublin roadworks
No murders at Duffy's Cut claims local clergyman
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