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.
When nationalists burned down an Irish castle during IRA hunger strikes
An emigrant's praise of Irish rain
The children's thank you book that highlighted Ireland's post-war aid to Germany
Divers discover ancient artifacts in River Shannon while searching for missing persons
Northern Ireland's most popular and unusual Irish baby names of 2020 revealed
Now 100, the little Irish girl who rode an Orphan Train to Texas
The myths and legends of Ireland's hound of deep, the Dobhar Chu
The untold story of the women who helped build the US railroads
Finding your United States military Irish for Memorial Day
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
The Irish and Ash Wednesday - Lent, meatless Fridays, hot-crossed buns
"Weile Weile Waile" - How an old Irish murder ballad became a children's song
Story of Patrick Kavanagh's "On Raglan Road" with Luke Kelly
Find your family history online - Ireland's 1926 Census is being digitized
Matt Talbot's example of sober devotion still inspires
Genealogy
