
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.

Cork mayor commemorates five brave Irish American brothers killed during WWII
The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
JFK's 1945 article on De Valera and reuniting Ireland
Secrets about the Kennedy family you didn’t know
Role of the Irish defenders at the Alamo is almost forgotten
Ireland’s Cú Chulainn was a Mayan god too
On This Day: Ellis Island, American gateway to 3.5 million Irish immigrants, closed in 1954
Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe affair confirmed by letter
Tracing Lindsay Lohan’s Irish roots
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 NORAID documentary challenges Irish American 'Plastic Paddy' stereotype
Old hand-colored photos of Ireland’s heritage sites give glimpse into past
WATCH: Forgotten Ireland, captured on 16mm film 70 years ago
Was the real King Arthur Irish?
The teenage Cork rebel girl whose story you will not believe
Genealogy
