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.
Enter to win iconic 1916 Leaders prints from celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh
Places to see in Ireland before you die – part two
Irish census names translated into gibberish by Canadian institute
The amazing life of Mary Dooley, an orphan girl from a Galway workhouse
Could your ancestor have been an orphan workhouse girl who emigrated in 1853?
In forgotten famine of 1879 Irish Americans aided relief efforts
The Irish took sides in the Spanish Civil War
Secret tunnels used for testing machine guns by Michael Collins revealed
Easter Rising’s influence on Irish American culture to be examined at UMass
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
On This Day: Irish literary star Oscar Wilde born in Dublin in 1854
WATCH: When Ted Kennedy visited in Ireland in 1962
A look at Irish American John L. Sullivan, the greatest boxer of his era
LISTEN: What you should know about the Irish folk song "The Rattlin' Bog"
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Prize for Literature this month in 1995
Genealogy
