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.
5 things you didn't know about your Mayo ancestors
1,500-year-old Galway bones and antlers believed to be part of ancient rituals
Quinnipiac Irish Famine museum puts records of the Great Hunger online
Debates bound to arise surrounding the 1916 Easter Rising centenary
“Building Ireland” looks at rumor Drogheda viaduct was built on foundations of Cotton Wool
4,000 year-old pit discovered on Sligo’s Coney Island
Long-lost Irish cousins reunited in Boston after 86 years
New bog body found by peat worker most likely from Bronze Age
Irish political cartoons from Home Rule period acquired by Great Hunger Institute (PHOTOS)
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
How one little girl inspired a New York journalist to restore faith in Santa
5 discoveries and inventions you never knew were made by the Irish
Is Newgrange's winter solstice light show a fake?
Exploring what remains of Ireland’s ancient royal capitals
Irish children's 90-year-old Santa letters found in chimney
Genealogy
