
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 rare unisex Irish baby name that’s perfect for autumn
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The old Irish ballads of emigration were our soundtrack in the Swinging Sixties
How kind people like you have cared for Irish hearts for 163 years...
Ireland's top Irish baby boy and girl names in 1990
One Irish girl’s name with powerful meaning is surging in popularity
On This Day: Michael Collins killed in an ambush in Co Cork
Obama makes quip about his and Biden’s “common Irish blood” at DNC
It's National Heritage Week - you can celebrate by planting a tree in Ireland
Most read
- 1 Come home to the West: Discover Ireland differently on Limerick Greenway
- 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

On This Day: The Irish Crown Jewels disappear from Dublin Castle in 1907
WATCH: An incredible tram ride through 1901 Belfast
WATCH: Irish dance of yesteryear, amazing historic footage
The Irish and Irish American signatories of the Declaration of Independence
175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Genealogy
