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.
On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
The restricted New York City island where Irish woman 'Typhoid Mary' died
Welcoming the autumnal equinox at one of Ireland’s most magical ancient sites
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The O'Reilly Clan
Behind the Name: Sinead, an Irish name deserving of a return to the spotlight
On This Day: US Army Brigadier General Michael Corcoran was born in Sligo in 1827
On This Day: Michael Cusack, the father of the GAA, is born in Co Clare
On This Day: Irish patriot Robert Emmet executed in Dublin in 1803
21 Irish surnames that make brilliant baby names
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
Search is on for people born in Ireland before the 1926 Census
On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
How the Irish ward off evil spirits at Halloween
Ireland's strangest and scariest ghost sightings and apparitions
The traditional matchmaking games Irish girls would play at Halloween
Genealogy