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.
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
The American dollar sign was created – accidentally – by a bankrupt Irishman
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
What makes Ireland’s national symbol the harp so special?
On This Day: Roger Casement's body was exhumed to be re-interred in Dublin
A Fairyland of His Own: Irish artist George Russell
On This Day: The first burial took place at Glasnevin Cemetery in 1832
WATCH: Irish dance of yesteryear, amazing historic footage
Genealogy