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.
On This Day: Kathleen Daly Clarke, first female Lord Mayor of Dublin, died in 1972
The Irish soldier who went on to rule a small kingdom in India
The Easter Rising and a day at the races for my Irish grandfather
Early Irish hunter-gatherers were dark skinned with blue eyes, says expert
The Black Irish - what are the truths and what are the myths?
Ten little known facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
The Tuatha De Danann: Were they Irish gods or aliens?
On This Day: Easter Rising rebel leader Padraig Pearse was executed
1916 Easter Rising made the front page of the New York Times 14 days in a row
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
Fostering children was huge in ancient Ireland 2,500 years ago
Myths and legends from Ireland’s five longest rivers
The truth about the "Nine Famous Irishmen" myth - It’s fake news mostly
LISTEN: “That Beats Banagher!” - James Scully and Mark Boylan on Irish Stew Podcast
Equal rights for women in ancient Ireland
Genealogy
