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.
Recalling my emigrant journey to London from rural Ireland in 1960
Albert F. Coyle: The forgotten Irish American hero of the Holocaust
The poetry of Irish sayings and phrases
Brigit 2025: Dublin City celebrates woman this spring with over 80 events
Beat Blue Monday 2025 with these Irish words of wisdom
On This Day: John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States
On This Day: Cork-born venerable Mary Aikenhead born in 1787
The Irish American gangster whose family rose from Chicago's ashes
Two spots in Tehran, Iran pay homage to Bobby Sands
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: Dr Jeremiah Lane: Ireland’s “oldest GP” practiced medicine into his late 90s
Irish author remembered today on "The Duchess Who Wasn't" Day
Royal roots unearthed: Queen Elizabeth’s lineage traces back to Brian Boru
The Troubles remembered: 3,500 lives lost and its lingering echoes
On this day: In 1725 Dublin children received the first smallpox vaccination
Genealogy
