
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.

What's your Irish County? County Down
GIVEAWAY: Only a few days left to win this fabulous Celtic hamper from Moon Mná
5 Things you didn’t know about your Donegal ancestors
How my Cork grandmother cheated death during the sinking of the Lusitania
What's your Irish County? County Cork
Ancestors in Cork? New online records lets you find their graves
What's your Irish County? County Clare
Is your family from Cavan? Earliest Irish census records revealed online
On This Day: Irish American crooner Bing Crosby is born
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: In 1725 Dublin children received the first smallpox vaccination
On This Day: The Dublin Lockout begins in 1913
The historic Donegal lodge that paved the way for Irish seaside resorts
WATCH: Short film reveals the terrible history of 'No Irish Need Apply'
Maureen O'Hara's "sex scandal" that led to a libel case
Genealogy
