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.
Make your campfire treats Irish this Toasted Marshmallow Day
Irish immigrants lives laid out at New York Tenement Museum
The attempted assassination by an Irishman of a British prince in Australia
Learning from the past - the forgotten graves of County Kerry
Seven hard-won lessons from searching for my Irish ancestors
The Battle of Waterloo and the Irish
Remembering the Irish role in the Battle of Waterloo
How Bennett Cerf got James Joyce’s Ulysses, the ultimate banned book, into the US
Campaign calls for London museum to return Irish giant’s stolen bones
Most read
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- 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 ancient Irish tradition of hunting the wren on St. Stephen’s Day
WATCH: Wonderful short film documents St. Stephen's Day tradition of Hunting the Wren
Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem’s ode to St. Stephen’s Day
WATCH: Old Irish anti-war song comes to life in 1978 short film "Christmas Morning"
What is the Irish Christmas season tradition of Daisy Day?
Genealogy