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.
Irish baby girl name popular in the 1970s is suddenly trending again
This "queenly" Irish name was given to less than three babies last year
On This Day: St. Brendan the Navigator, an early transatlantic voyager, died in 587
WATCH: Co Leitrim locals dance at the crossroads for St. Patrick's Day 1953
The unlikely Irish county name that was given to 5 girls last year in the US
On This Day: The Founder of Boys Town Father Flanagan passed away
Erin International: Family heir search firm launches in U.S.
What's your Irish County? County Kildare
How Irish folklore inspired the black cat superstition
Most read
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- 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
175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
WATCH: Remarkable footage from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1940s
An Irish nun's friendship with Princess Diana
On This Day: Irish American hero Thomas Francis Meagher died in 1867
Genealogy
