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.
On This Day: Republic of Ireland Act comes into effect in 1949
U.S. Ambassador to Ireland goes home to his Mayo roots
Missing 1,490 remembered in Famine walk from Strokestown to Dublin
Could Orange be the new green in Ireland as some are seeking?
Using social histories and directories for your Irish family tree
The fascinating history of Ireland's Guinness family
Time for Irish to stop calling Irish-Americans Plastic Paddies
Historic personal treasures from 1916 Rising go up for auction (PHOTOS)
Say farewell to Irish cops in NYPD says former top detective
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
Sights and sounds along the prehistoric Shannon River Road
The Irish took sides in the Spanish Civil War
The remarkable tale of a Louth woman who fought in the American Civil War
The Irish legend of Finn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge
WATCH: An intimate, fascinating look into the history of Ireland’s folklife
Genealogy