
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.

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
Ireland announces participation in 2027 celebration of Norman history
What's your Irish County? County Westmeath
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- 2 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 4 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 5 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 6 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 7 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 8 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 9 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
History

An Irish nun's friendship with Princess Diana
On This Day: Irish American hero Thomas Francis Meagher died in 1867
WIN a private walking tour of Dublin's Georgian architecture with lunch at the Merrion Hotel
WATCH: Incredible US footage of 1920s Ireland colorized
WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
Genealogy
