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.
On This Day: Easter Rising leader John MacBride executed in 1916
Celebrate World Laughter Day with Irish jokes, regional wit and wisdom
Interesting facts about the lovely County Clare
On This Day: William Pearse, Easter Rising rebel, was born
How to apply for an Irish passport
Treat her to a little bit of Ireland this Mother's Day with a unique Irish gift box
Diary of Co Armagh soldier, 17, killed at Battle of the Somme
40 children died in the Easter Rising, some with the taste of chocolate in their mouths
How the 1916 Easter Rising gave way to Ireland's War of Independence
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
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
First through Ellis island - Annie Moore’s tough and tragic life
New Year’s Day traditions from 1930s Ireland
Was Ireland a good tourist spot in the '80s?
Genealogy
