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.
Amazing Pathé travelogue of Ireland in 1965 (VIDEO)
These photos show the oldest surviving veterans of the American Civil War
My aunt witnessed the 1916 King Street murder of innocent Irish civilians
Historic Joe Biden footage of Newgrange and his ancestor’s resting place
Irish Famine immigrants were huge fans of soda water
Mayhem in the streets of New York - the Orange Riots of the 1870s
Who you gonna call? The clever and funny Ghostbusters (VIDEOS)
The most popular Irish baby names for 2016… so far
Robert De Niro, Mike Tyson feature in new documentary on John F Kennedy Jr (VIDEOS)
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- 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 incredible life of "The Woman of Aran" - Born on this day in 1894, she lived to 109
On This Day: The Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed in 1985
On This Day: William Pearse, Easter Rising rebel, was born
On This Day: William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize in 1923
The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
Genealogy