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.
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
Lucy and Thomas top baby names in Ireland for 2013
A year of sorrow, a year of pain, but some joy too
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 New Year's Day 1892 Annie Moore was the first immigrant through Ellis Island
On This Day: Maria Edgeworth, author of "Castle Rackrent" was born in 1767
First through Ellis island - Annie Moore’s tough and tragic life
New Year’s Day traditions from 1930s Ireland
Was Ireland a good tourist spot in the '80s?
Genealogy