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.
A history of native Irish trees and how to plant your own roots in Ireland
Workhouse records reveal rural Ireland’s harsh past
Irish American discovers immigrant great-grandfather in 1929 Seattle photograph
Behind the name: Olin oozes character and has a "lively" Viking twist
Irish history’s lesser-known figures explored in new podcast
Some of the most popular Irish surnames in the US, explained
The Irish-American man in charge of the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis
Ireland's National Roll of Honour for World War One
Give yourself a gift from Ireland and keep the memories of your Irish vacation alive
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