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.
Boston honors six glorious heroes of the Irish American community
Are Irish names going out of fashion in the US?
Ireland re-opens ‘hooded men’ case, accuses UK of torturing IRA suspects in 1971
GAA and RTÉ announce expanded International GAAGO service for 2015
Five things you didn’t know about your Galway ancestors
Did your Irish ancestors settle in Washington DC?
Festive Countdown for daily festive family history treats
Annual Trim Haymaking Festival preserves culture of rural Ireland
Ten more ways you know you were brought up by Irish parents
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: William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize in 1923
The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
On This Day: Five brave Sullivan brothers killed on same day during WWII
Lance-Corporal Michael O’Leary, a true Irish WWI hero
Family historians urged to check out 1911 census
Genealogy