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.
The top five most wanted Irishmen in history
Irish mother’s letters to her son fighting in the US Civil War
Rare Irish Great Hunger rations book discovered (VIDEO)
The 1930s - When Irish Catholics changed America
Ireland forgets Irish emigrants who fought in US Civil War
Eleven early Hollywood stars with Irish roots
Genealogy goldmine as Ireland’s deaths, births and marriages go online
Are redheads in danger of extinction? Some scientists say yes
The O’Briens and County Clare
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
