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.
Discovering I had a relative who fought for Lincoln in the Civil War
The Irish built America, but did you know an Irishman invented cement?
The Representative Church Body Library and their Irish family history records
Make your heart swell with love for Ireland with this short movie
On This Day: The Third Home Rule Bill passed the House of Commons in 1913
The Irish family tree of Bill O’Reilly, Soledad O’Brien and Bill Maher
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
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
From Dublin drunk to Burmese monk - the Irishman who became the first western Buddhist monk
Give the gift of Irish heritage and storytelling this Christmas
On This Day: "Fairytale of New York" singer Kirsty MacColl tragically killed
How one little girl inspired a New York journalist to restore faith in Santa
5 discoveries and inventions you never knew were made by the Irish
Genealogy