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.
Why my orphaned Irish father will always be my best friend
EVENT: Don’t miss the last few days of The Irish Civil War National Conference
WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
On This Day: 80 years ago Johnny McCormack, Ireland’s beloved tenor passed away
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
On This Day: W.B. Yeats was born in 1865 in Dublin
When 30,000 attended a Fenian Irish picnic in New York City in 1865
The Irish duo who murdered 16 people and sold the cadavers
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
Sights and sounds along the prehistoric Shannon River Road
The Irish took sides in the Spanish Civil War
The remarkable tale of a Louth woman who fought in the American Civil War
The Irish legend of Finn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge
WATCH: An intimate, fascinating look into the history of Ireland’s folklife
Genealogy
