
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.

Facts about the Irish and sex
Here's when Shamrock Shakes return to McDonald's in the US!
On This Day: Irish literary legend Brendan Behan is born in 1923
WATCH: Irish trad session in NYC's legendary Paddy Reilly’s more than 30 years ago
The top ten Irish outlaws and gangsters
Muckross House: A shining jewel on the Emerald Isle
The Legend of Brigid
On This Day: Michael Collins exacts revenge on John “Shankers” Ryan
Celebrate Irish female filmmakers this month with these free online screenings
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

A guide to Ireland’s forgotten castles and abbeys
How Germans bid to purchase Cliffs of Moher land in 1964 and it was almost accepted
WATCH: Incredible remastered footage of Michael Collins in color
Ulysses S. Grant, the first US president to ever visit Ireland, died on this day in 1885
Brendan Behan discovers New York City
Genealogy
