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.
DNA evidence shows how well Irish integrated with Vikings
Was your family shanty or lace curtain Irish? It’s important
WATCH: An Irish immigrant tale as told in a 1912 short film
Popular Irish girl names as Gaeilge
The first female journalist to cover a US presidential election was Irish American
Tracing Kurt Cobain's Irish roots
What I couldn’t learn about my Irish grandmother from records and tests
The top twenty books every Irish American should read
OMG or OMD? How to text in the Irish language
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