
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.

This Irish name is the most popular name for baby boys in New York
The most dangerous book in Ireland
Petition launched to rename Cork street after Frederick Douglass
Did an Irishwoman in Pennsylvania live to be 134 years old?
Newly-discovered Battle of Antietam map shows thousands of burials
Leprechauns are protected under European law
Irish America Hall of Fame: Jean Kennedy Smith
Elites at Newgrange showed signs of incest, study says
Wreckage of WWII boat commanded by JFK found in Harlem River
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- 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: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
WATCH: A colorful look at 1940 Dublin, "a city of romance and contrasts"
Kerryman leads charge to save Great Hunger collection in America
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
WATCH: Ellis Island - The gateway that welcomed 3.5 million Irish to America
Genealogy
