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.
What’s your Irish county?
My first Irish American Christmas was a new experience for my family
Irish expressions you’ll have no clue what they mean
A Christmas Miracle: Loneliest Irishman finds someone to share Christmas with
Belfast-Beltway Boxing Project announced as winner of Ambassador Award
Bringing you closer to your Irish roots and spreading a special gift
And the top IrishCentral stories of 2013 were...envelope please!
How the Irish beat the Nazis: Swastika football program up for auction
Project inspired by Boston’s Freedom Trail to put 1916 Easter Rising on the map
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
The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
Who killed Michael Collins? Questions still linger
The incredible life Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s 16th century pirate queen
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians identity is rooted in history
On This Day: Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol received its first prisoners in 1796
Genealogy
