
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 Irish contribution to Major League Baseball
The Irish Confederate who has a city and two counties in the US named after him
Irish Heritage Tree planted in honor of James Joyce's Ulysses
WATCH: This short Irish film features the best parts of old Ireland
St. Patrick's Festival is back! Schedule revealed for biggest Irish event of the year
Try these Irish terms of endearment on Valentine's Day
The best real-life Irish love stories for St. Valentine’s Day
The Dublin doctor who fought to end slavery and Irish racism in the US
On This Day: Larry Cunningham, Irish country music singer, born in 1938
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

Brendan Behan discovers New York City
On This Day, the man behind "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," Ernest Ball was born
Can you help identify this man in colorized video of 1920s Ireland?
How the illegitimate son of a Sligo man became the father of Chilean independence
WATCH: A rare look at Belfast in the 1920s
Genealogy
