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.
Crazy Irish stories! The Irish man who stole the Crown Jewels to a real-life Robinson Crusoe
In Ireland, the county you are from is of vital importance
The Irish War Cry and what it meant to the Celtic tribes in battle
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
Maura Murray: Still missing after 13 long years
Knock Blessed Virgin visionary to be reburied at old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NY
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
