
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: Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin
The strange history of the Nazi plans to invade Ireland
Irish slave owner's role in illegal slave trafficking in 1860 explored in Netflix documentary
How Theodore Roosevelt made Irish hero Cuchulainn popular again
Discovery of Irish airman lost at sea during the Second World War
The terrible traumas of Ted Kennedy plus his greatest victories revealed in new book
JFK may have had gay experiences with friend claims biographer
Did JFK's Irish driver cause his death?
Boy George "sad and proud" of his ancestor, a famed executed IRA man
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- 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

Battle of the Boyne: Catholic troops were "dead drunk," firsthand account reveals
WATCH: This Aer Lingus advert from the 1960s will have you feeling nostalgic
Heartbreaking images from Northern Ireland remind us why we can never return to the Troubles
How Sybil Connolly led the Irish invasion into the fashion world
The incredible story of the first American ship to bring Famine relief to Ireland
Genealogy
