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 you should know about The Orchard County, County Armagh
County Armagh "road-bowling" is a quintessential summer tradition
TUNE IN: Join the Herstory livestream event today and celebrate the Celtic festival of Bealtaine
The passionate love poems and affairs of Michael Collins
The romance of Ireland's dance halls in the 1950s and 1960s
International Dance Day: Ice skater wows the crowd with Riverdance routine
Happy Birthday Bridget Moynahan! To celebrate we've planted her a tree in Ireland
Why Cavan is the greatest place in the world
Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
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