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.
A guide to identifying the Celtic regions
Vital 25th Amendment, the work of an Irish emigrant’s son
Danny Boy: The history behind Ireland's most famous ballad
Little known tale of generous Turkish aid to the Irish during the Great Hunger
Murder of a Hollywood director from Carlow remains unsolved 100 years later
An Irish saint's eerie prophecy that Pope Francis will be the last Pontiff
Did you know Ireland has an Amish community?
Famous shipwreck could have brought Irish indentured servants to Virginia
Auction: 'Irish Vernacular: Private Collection of Ceramics, Furniture, and Metalwork'
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