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.
On This Day: Anglo Irish negotiations began in London in 1921
A European Samhain - Ancient Halloween traditions from Ireland and beyond
Tracing your Irish ancestors: A three-step guide
Inspiring and funny quotes on what it means to be Irish
The most haunted spots in Ireland to visit this Halloween
Is this Witch’s Yew Ireland’s most haunted tree?
On This Day: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, is born in 1903
Broadcaster and writer Manchán Magan remembered as ‘absolute gentleman’ and ‘dreamer’
Expert says this gender neutral Irish baby name will be popular in 2026
On This Day: Irish tenor Frank Patterson born in County Tipperary
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
New TG4 series 'Ó Mhuir Go Tír' explores Ireland's island transportation evolution
The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland
On This Day: Edward Bruce, the last High King of Ireland, dies in 1318
Halloween - an Irish invention, an American export
The mystery of 1916 leader and New Yorker Éamon de Valera’s birth
Genealogy
