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 Guinness family’s influence on Dublin extends far beyond pints of stout
The origins and history of the surname MacCarthy
These English words all have Irish roots
Seeing Ireland through my father's vintage Kodachrome images
Irish surnames as baby first names? Really!
The Boss turns 76 - Tracing Bruce Springsteen’s roots back to Kildare
On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
The restricted New York City island where Irish woman 'Typhoid Mary' died
Welcoming the autumnal equinox at one of Ireland’s most magical ancient sites
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
