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.
When Boston banned Christmas
Happy solstice! How to watch Newgrange's magical light display live from Ireland
WATCH: Conan O’Brien and Joe Biden banter about their Irish American roots
A St. Brigid Festival is coming to Ireland in 2024, here's our official guide
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
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
Family historians urged to check out 1911 census
Ireland's historical transport records now available online
On This Day: Ellis Island closed its doors in 1954 after admitting millions of immigrants
Why 1969 was the craziest year in Irish American history
Martinmas in Ireland and its geese, blood rites and old customs
Genealogy
