
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.

The chilling story behind one of Ireland's most haunted houses
A glimpse inside Ireland's historic ghost villages
The Irish legend of Finn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge
Sláinte! Feasting with angels, Irish recipes for Michaelmas
Stand with Irish stories and sustain independent journalism
On This Day: Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit Ireland
Do you have Viking roots? Check out these Irish surnames with strong links
On this day: Raising a toast to Arthur Guinness, brewing visionary
All about the Irish surname O'Hara
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

On This Day: Irish literary star Oscar Wilde born in Dublin in 1854
WATCH: When Ted Kennedy visited in Ireland in 1962
A look at Irish American John L. Sullivan, the greatest boxer of his era
LISTEN: What you should know about the Irish folk song "The Rattlin' Bog"
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Prize for Literature this month in 1995
Genealogy
