
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.

Ireland deem Patrick Pearse surrender letter too expensive to buy
Which Irish names are making a comeback?
Can you guess the ratio of Irish Americans to the number of Irish?
When racism ruled New York and my great-great-grandfather died
How Hitler’s henchman became an Irish farmer after the war
Can you guess the most Irish towns in New York?
Amazing shots of Ireland in the ‘70s and '80s (PHOTOS)
Northern Irish orphans sent to Australia were painted black
John F. Kennedy branded de Valera a “lunatic” after 1945 visit to Ireland
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
