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.
Was my Irish ancestor partly to blame for the drowning of 1,000 people?
How Irish lovers gave gifts long before the modern era
Discover the jailbirds in your family tree with Findmypast’s Crime and Punishment month
The Irish fighter boy and his flying shamrock
I never knew my Irish grandmother as much as I wanted to (PHOTOS)
How the nuns tamed the Gangs of New York
Dubliner in the Wild West tried to get LA to come to their senses over water
JFK visited Ireland for the first time 70 years ago today
2015 Irish Great Hunger commemorations to be held in Newry
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
WATCH: A colorful look at 1940 Dublin, "a city of romance and contrasts"
Kerryman leads charge to save Great Hunger collection in America
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
WATCH: Ellis Island - The gateway that welcomed 3.5 million Irish to America
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Countess Constance Markievicz died in 1927
Genealogy
