
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.

Amazing 89-year-old man who won't let Irish Americans forget the Famine
Most popular baby names in Ireland 2017 revealed
Magic Halloween spells from the White Witch of Cobh
How an Irish-born great-great-grandfather came to fight in the US Civil War
The top Irish Halloween scary spirits - a terrifying bunch
"The best left" - Irish emigrants and those who remained to pick up the pieces
Boston's Fenway Park - home to GAA, hurling, and freedom
Could these Irish names become extinct due to current trends?
Famine victims had badly rotten teeth due to heavy smoking new study reveals
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: 1970 footage of a seanchaí telling the tale of his missing wife in Co Clare
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
Genealogy
