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.
Maureen Dowd’s Uma Thurman world scoop -- They don’t come more Irish than the NY Times columnist
Famine episode of 'Victoria' TV drama that "shocked" British airs on PBS tonight
LISTEN: When the potato blight hit and terror ensued during Ireland's Famine
The changing identity of Irish and Irishness in a global context
Coming home - following my dream to visit Ireland, where I belong
The Irish flag was flown for the first time 170 years ago in Waterford
Saints named me - my very Irish names and its legacy
435-million-year-old starfish fossil found in Galway
Irish, Catholic American - why I’m part of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
Most read
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- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
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- 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