
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 baby names become top choice in Hollywood
On This Day: The Ulster Covenant is signed in 1912
An Irish Mammy, the luck of the Irish, and the Beatles
On this day: First NYPD cop to die in the line of duty was an Irish immigrant
On this day: Sept 21, 1941 John F. Kennedy enters the US Navy
Irish genealogy experts partially trace Robert De Niro’s Irish roots
Irish genealogy breakthrough as more of Boston's Catholic records go online
100 years ago today, Michael Collins' The Squad was born
Over 100 Viking treasures unearthed by metal detector enthusiast
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: Meet Ireland’s last cycling postman in this 1975 interview
Irish Legend: The Song of Fionuala of the Children of Lir
WATCH: Dublin's nightclub scene and go-go dancing in 1970 Ireland
The sad decline of traditional Gaeltacht practices
On This Day: Edward Flanagan, the Irish founder of Boys Town, was born
Genealogy
