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.
Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
How the illegitimate son of a Sligo man became the father of Chilean independence
How Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was linked to Sligo’s cholera outbreak
The Roscommon Volunteers - The common men who freed Ireland
This Memorial Day, Irish Heritage Tree remembers those who have passed
The top ten attractions of County Offaly
How to choose which Irish instrument to learn how to play
What's your Irish County? County Meath
Five things you didn’t know about your Meath ancestors
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
Battle of the Boyne: Catholic troops were "dead drunk," firsthand account reveals
WATCH: This Aer Lingus advert from the 1960s will have you feeling nostalgic
Heartbreaking images from Northern Ireland remind us why we can never return to the Troubles
How Sybil Connolly led the Irish invasion into the fashion world
The incredible story of the first American ship to bring Famine relief to Ireland
Genealogy
