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 Irishman who composed Japan's national anthem
Key to Christmas was decorating our tree with my father
UNESCO gives special designation to uilleann piping
Did you know redheads, ten percent of Ireland, have superpowers?
Kilkenny center honoring 976 buried famine dead opens to public
LIVE: The remarkable story of Irish women’s emigration to the US live from Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute
LISTEN: Rents, riots and volcanoes – Ireland on the brink of the Great Hunger
Irish women’s Great Hunger immigration examined at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut
Does Ireland hold the record for the world’s longest good-bye?
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
On this day: In 1725 Dublin children received the first smallpox vaccination
On This Day: The Dublin Lockout begins in 1913
The historic Donegal lodge that paved the way for Irish seaside resorts
WATCH: Short film reveals the terrible history of 'No Irish Need Apply'
Maureen O'Hara's "sex scandal" that led to a libel case
Genealogy
