
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.

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The sinking of HMS Wasp, 1884 – A curse, sabotage or human error?
D-Day: The Irish heroes of the battle that turned WWII to the Allies' favor
100-year old Irish American hero of D-Day recalls the battle
How the weather report from a Co Mayo lighthouse changed the D-Day invasion
The many, mighty Irish American Ryans of D-Day
How modern Ireland was created
The hidden link between hurling and ice hockey
Washington Ireland Program launches largest ever Class
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

WATCH: Irish history expert Davy Holden on the Irish-American Athletic Club
A slice of old Ireland - Mary Blake of Ennistymon
On This Day: IRA bombs in London kill 11 people, seven horses in 1982
WATCH: Snapshots of Irish history from British Pathé
WATCH: Two famous golfers hit Ireland's greens in gorgeous 1970s travelogue
Genealogy
