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 diaspora: What country has the most people of Irish heritage?
The Swede and the Finn who fought at the GPO in the 1916 Rising
Ireland's last witch trial, over 300 years ago, condemned eight innocent women
The top baby names for girls and boys in Ireland 1973
4,500-year-old boat was among Galway Viking artifacts hoard discovery
Viking warriors and treasures are buried beneath Dublin
A history of mashed potatoes… and it's not Irish
Study claims that Irishmen descended from Turkish farmers
“Between the jigs and reels” – what’s behind my Irish Granny’s sayings
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
Where Irish history was made - Top towns and places
Support the stories that unite the global Irish family this New Year
Was "Breakfast at Tiffany’s" Audrey Hepburn character inspired by an Irish woman?
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
Genealogy