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.
Would you try ‘Bog butter’ from 3,000 BC?
Former First Lady Michelle Obama's ancestral link to an Irish slave owner
After 1950s forced adoption New Yorker is reunited with his Irish mother
When a 2,600-year-old Celtic princess was discovered in Germany
Why 40,000 Protestants fled Ireland in four years
Maura Murray: Still missing after 13 long years
Knock Blessed Virgin visionary to be reburied at old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NY
Britain’s Prince Charles has ancestral links to Brian Boru and Kilkenny
Grave of Irish man captured in France during World War I discovered
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
WATCH: An intimate, fascinating look into the history of Ireland’s folklife
Ancient Irish legends and myths surrounding the Cliffs of Moher
Give the gift of Irish heritage and storytelling this Christmas
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
Genealogy
