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? Catholic? Join Here": Finding community with The Ancient Order of Hibernians
Take our Famous Brigid's Quiz and test your knowledge this Brigid's Day Bank Holiday
WATCH: Historic Irish American moments told through Pathé newsreels
Remembering the Irish NYPD patrolman who wrote one of Ireland's most loved ballads
WATCH: An Irish priest's incredible film footage of mid-century American life
The Irish roots behind America's Groundhog Day
Exploring Celestial Celtic-Christianity this St. Brigid's Day
A guide to learning your Irish family history this St. Brigid's Day
Relishing "Mná na hÉireann" by Kate Bush for St. Brigid's Day
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