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.
How our distinctly Irish way of giving directions came to be
Poverty-stricken author of Irish national anthem forced to sue Irish state
When three Irish language speakers wrongfully executed due to lack of English
The 1916 commemoration for British soldiers remembered my own relative
Inquest into 1974 Birmingham pub IRA bombings to be reopened
Montreal’s Irish fight for memorial to the 6,000 famine immigrants who died of typhus
Descendants of Irishmen killed in mining disaster 150 years ago search for answers
The infamous story of the Armagh woman who was buried alive
4,800-year-old Newgrange bone leads to theory on how dogs were domesticated
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
The Irish and Ash Wednesday - Lent, meatless Fridays, hot-crossed buns
"Weile Weile Waile" - How an old Irish murder ballad became a children's song
Story of Patrick Kavanagh's "On Raglan Road" with Luke Kelly
Find your family history online - Ireland's 1926 Census is being digitized
Matt Talbot's example of sober devotion still inspires
Genealogy
