
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.

Neglect and death of 800 kids in Galway happened in plain sight
One US woman’s desperate 44-year search for her birth mother
What life was like for the sons and daughters of the Great Irish Famine
Burren geologist uncovers 320-million-year-old shark tooth
Connemara to commemorate nine fishermen who died bringing British landmine ashore
Listen to the earliest known recording of John F. Kennedy
Why is the song "Danny Boy" so popular? Experts explain
1,000-year-old religious route unearthed by archaeologists in Mayo
Top facts about Irish Americans from the US Census Bureau
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: Irish history expert Davy Holden on the Irish-American Athletic Club
A slice of old Ireland - Mary Blake of Ennistymon
On This Day: IRA bombs in London kill 11 people, seven horses in 1982
WATCH: Snapshots of Irish history from British Pathé
WATCH: Two famous golfers hit Ireland's greens in gorgeous 1970s travelogue
Genealogy
