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 Irish ancestry of Claire Cronin, US Ambassador to Ireland
The musical instruments of ancient Ireland
Myths and legends from Ireland’s five longest rivers
Britain's greatest flying ace in World War II was an Irishman
The Irish legend of the Leprechaun remembered
Irish children's 90-year-old Santa letters found in chimney
What is the Irish Christmas season tradition of Daisy Day?
Forget Hades and Loki, who was the Celtic god of death?
TUNE IN: The magical Newgrange Winter Solstice 2021 live stream
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
Battle of the Boyne: Catholic troops were "dead drunk," firsthand account reveals
WATCH: This Aer Lingus advert from the 1960s will have you feeling nostalgic
Heartbreaking images from Northern Ireland remind us why we can never return to the Troubles
How Sybil Connolly led the Irish invasion into the fashion world
The incredible story of the first American ship to bring Famine relief to Ireland
Genealogy
