
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.

21 rare names that were given to less than five babies in Ireland last year
Irish Pride: celebrating Ireland's most influential LGBTQ people
How to make boxty, traditional Irish potato cakes
Remembering Kate Spade: Celebrating her Irish roots on the anniversary of her passing
On This Day: Easter Rising hero James Connolly was born in Edinburgh
Irish baked garlic and cheese potatoes recipe
How to make traditional Irish colcannon
The Irish Fenian invasion of Canada in 1866
The mysterious death of Oscar Wilde's wife Constance Lloyd
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

Ireland's Gaelic games: A deep dive into Irish culture and heritage
The origins of Ireland's national anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann
WATCH: One of James Cagney's last films was about the Irish War of Independence
The last letter written on board the doomed Titanic
On This Day: Irish literary star Oscar Wilde born in Dublin in 1854
Genealogy
