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.
Kildare village 'twinning' with Bruce Springsteen's New Jersey hometown
11 wedding ceremony readings by famous Irish writers
11 Irish baby names inspired by our favorite actors
On This Day: Roger Casement's body was exhumed to be re-interred in Dublin
On This Day: The first burial took place at Glasnevin Cemetery in 1832
The modern Irish boy name that is set to be popular this year
WATCH: Fascinating footage of Cork City in color in 1902
How an Irish book tour transformed Frederick Douglass
On This Day: Irish Famine writer William Carleton is born
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
How Aran Woollen Mills knit tradition into a sustainable future
On This Day: Larry Cunningham, the "King of the Showbands", was born in Longford
This World Radio Day, celebrating inventor Guglielmo Marconi’s Irish connection
How "The Fields of Athenry" became Ireland’s most famous song
WATCH: St. Patrick’s adopted home in Co Down explored in 1935 short film
Genealogy