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.
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This Old Irish name popped up for the first time ever on charts in Ireland last year
On This Day: The Irish American star Gene Kelly was born in Pittsburgh
On This Day: Michael Collins killed in an ambush in Co Cork
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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 This Day: Irish literary star Oscar Wilde born in Dublin in 1854
WATCH: When Ted Kennedy visited in Ireland in 1962
A look at Irish American John L. Sullivan, the greatest boxer of his era
LISTEN: What you should know about the Irish folk song "The Rattlin' Bog"
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Prize for Literature this month in 1995
Genealogy
