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.
Collect your Irish family history around the Thanksgiving dinner table
Standing ovation: Dublin's Abbey Theatre's role in shaping Ireland's history
This beloved Irish name was given to less than three baby girls last year
On This Day: JFK, first Irish American Catholic President of the US, assassinated in Dallas
Behind the name: Claire, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
On This Day: Dublin's Bloody Sunday of 1920
From Connecticut to Cael Uisce - American man finds his Fermanagh family
JFK's strong Irish roots in Limerick, Fermanagh, Cork, and Clare
10 previously very common Irish baby names that are going extinct
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
