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 myths and legends - the giant and the baby
A deadly “great blaze” - the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918
Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
Ancient Christmas traditions that are still followed in Ireland
Centuries of Cork City history uncovered in free, interactive digital map
WATCH: Ireland's national anthem performed in Irish Sign Language
“I could see the resemblance” - Texas woman on meeting her Irish birth mother
GIVEAWAY: Last chance to win Celtic Thunder's brand new album "Odyssey"
An IrishCentral Mug is the ideal Christmas gift
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
Guy Fawkes was killed trying to restore a Catholic to British throne
On This Day: Richard Nixon elected president of the United States in 1968
National Love Your Red Hair Day: Maureen O'Hara and the most famous redheads in history
As important as Newgrange or Tara - an ancient Irish site you’ve never heard of
"Bad Bridget" film adaptation in the works from "Kneecap" director
Genealogy
