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.
Traditional Irish Christmas gifts for the whole family
Win 10 Irish Heritage Trees! Enter our Ugly Christmas Sweater Competition
Recalling John Lennon’s Irish connection on the anniversary of his death
This Christmas give a gift that will last a lifetime by planting an Irish Heritage Tree
LISTEN: Celtic Thunder's new album "Odyssey" is out now!
The most annoying Christmas songs of all time - Bah humbug!
WATCH: A visit to the Blasket Island Centre on the Dingle Peninsula
WWII ace-turned-bank robber: The unlikely life of Chris Magee
WATCH: The EPIC untold story behind Fairytale of New York
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
On New Year's Day 1892 Annie Moore was the first immigrant through Ellis Island
On This Day: Maria Edgeworth, author of "Castle Rackrent" was born in 1767
First through Ellis island - Annie Moore’s tough and tragic life
New Year’s Day traditions from 1930s Ireland
Was Ireland a good tourist spot in the '80s?
Genealogy