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.
The most popular boy and girl names in Ireland 1978
Why are all Irish men's beards red?
Why did an Earl’s sister dedicate herself to fighting for Irish freedom?
Irish baby names inspired by some seriously talented folks from Ireland
Bring some comfort from Ireland into your home this fall with our Irish gift box
Was "Breakfast at Tiffany’s" Audrey Hepburn character inspired by an Irish woman?
Making the dead welcome - All Souls’ Day in Ireland
The baby names that have been in Ireland’s top 100 for the past 50 years
Remember the blessed on All Saints’ Day in prayer
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
