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.
Here are the baby girl names that are trending in Ireland in 2025
The rise of Irish Paganism
On This Day: Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, was born in 1874
Five Irish love stories that changed history
This World Radio Day, celebrating inventor Guglielmo Marconi’s Irish connection
The most popular girl and boy baby names in Ireland in 1985
Our favorite Irish love sayings for Valentine’s Day
On This Day: Irish political leader Garret Fitzgerald was born in 1926
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Countess Constance Markievicz died in 1927
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
