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.
Famed 18th century Irish painter struck a deal with the Cherokee Indians
Your quick-fire guide to new online Church of Ireland parish records
Historical Irish newspapers – eight new titles go online
Potato genetically engineered to resist blight that plagued Irish during Great Hunger
Irish language activist calls on public to adopt an endangered word
Forget Sean and Mary, Americans are naming their babies after guns
“Epic Journeys Ellis Island” online exhibition tracks 71 people from Clare’s stories of immigration
The Navvies: How the Irish built the modern British railways
Were your ancestors servants or masters in Ireland?
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
