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.
It’s a long way to Sruffaunoughterluggatoora - the seriously strange and wonderful long place names in Ireland
Japanese pensioner spent 14 years copying Book of Kells
Thanksgiving with an Irish twist - making Ireland feel homely for the holidays
Bringing back Thanksgiving – getting through one holiday before we tackle Christmas
Top ten things every Irish dancer is thankful for this Thanksgiving
One of Ireland’s smallest counties is loving getting back to its roots - launches Leitrim Roots Festival 2013
Pre-famine petition supporting English lord could act as a census substitute for 1841 Ireland
Irish Americans encouraged to join international O’Neill gathering in Ireland
“How I Met Your Mother” star Alyson Hannigan has trouble spelling her daughter’s Irish name
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
WATCH: Ding Dong Denny shares his version of the history of Ireland
Remarkable footage of the Cliffs of Moher in 1957
On This Day: “Pygmalion” playwright, George Bernard Shaw, was born in 1856
1916 Easter Rising museum on Moore Street in Dublin moves forward
A guide to Ireland’s forgotten castles and abbeys
Genealogy
