
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.

Original Irish Jack-o-Lanterns made of turnips were truly terrifying
The most famous people in the world with Irish roots
5,000 year old DNA reveals the surprising origins of the Irish
Win tickets to the next Masters of Tradition Irish folk concert
Learn how to play an Irish folk instrument with Waltons Irish Music
Family Heritage Month - Professor discovers the long-hidden dark secrets of her Irish family
Family Heritage Month - DNA test reveals truth for one man after Irish nuns lied
100 years ago today Michael Collins named treaty delegation - De Valera refused to join
Guess the only state in the US where an Irish last name ranks in the top three
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
