
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.

TimeOut names Irish enclave of Woodlawn one of best neighborhoods in New York
The only known painting of The Great Hunger to come to US
Top Irish Archbishop asks for “no glorification” for Easter 1916
The American dollar sign was created – accidentally – by a bankrupt Irishman
Ireland during 1916 and in present day 2016 (VIDEO)
Findmypast is free this weekend!
Our Irish ancestors: How they had fun in New York City
New graphic novel tells the story of Ireland’s Great Hunger (VIDEO)
Online exhibitions will bring people and untold stories of 1916 Rising characters to life
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

Irish Census Records: Free expert guide launched for Irish family history researchers
LISTEN: The greatest songs of The Troubles in Northern Ireland
English words you never realized have Irish roots
Irish songs that celebrate when Nelson’s Pillar was blown up
Initial Tuam excavations uncover adult human tooth fragment and glass baby bottle feeders
Genealogy
