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.
Irish people should follow St. Brigid, not just St. Patrick
Irish maids in New York were subject to a racist slur in the 19th century
Was Saint Patrick really saintly or a criminal?
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
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- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
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- 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
Galway to host 2026 National Famine Commemoration
Ancient Christmas traditions that are still followed in Ireland
WATCH: Vintage Irish tourism video shows off the best bits of Ireland
When JFK reassured a little girl that the Russians would not kill Santa
WATCH: Dubliners brave a Christmas Day swim over 60 years ago
Genealogy
