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.
Abraham Lincoln donated to Ireland during the Great Famine
The beloved Irish treasure, the genius of Oscar Wilde
Hundreds of Irish heirs to unclaimed British inheritance
Great similarities between experiences of the Irish and Native Americans
Three percent of men in Northern Ireland have Pict DNA, study finds
How Guinness saved Ireland in World War II
Celtic chieftains graveyard discovered in France
Neglect and death of 800 kids in Galway happened in plain sight
One US woman’s desperate 44-year search for her birth mother
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
A Fairyland of His Own: Irish artist George Russell
On This Day: The first burial took place at Glasnevin Cemetery in 1832
WATCH: Irish dance of yesteryear, amazing historic footage
How Aran Woollen Mills knit tradition into a sustainable future
WATCH: Vintage footage shows how Ireland ushered in springtime in the 1950s
Genealogy