
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.

The 1916 Easter Rising: A guide to the key figures, facts, and moments
Defending Trinity College during the 1916 Easter Rising
LAST CHANCE to WIN a trip to Ireland! Don't miss your chance to share your love letter
On This Day: Ireland's Easter Rising begins in 1916
Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
What are Ireland's Bank Holidays in 2025?
Free and useful Irish genealogy websites to assist in your family history search
Why Easter is such an important holiday to the Irish
On This Day: Ireland's last legal execution is conducted in 1954
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- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 4 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 5 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 6 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 7 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 8 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 9 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
History

175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
WATCH: Remarkable footage from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1940s
An Irish nun's friendship with Princess Diana
On This Day: Irish American hero Thomas Francis Meagher died in 1867
Genealogy
