
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.

Top ten Irish food and drinks you’ve never heard of
8 Misconceptions about New York actors - An Irish actor gives her verdict on life as an NY thespian
In Focus: Michelle K. Smith IrishCentral intern and NYU history grad student
The Gathering inspires Kinsale Arts Festival organisers to invite the world for a cup of tea
The past will come alive at the second History Festival of Ireland in Carlow
‘Sligo - Who Knew?’ initiative using social media to publicize county’s hidden gems
'The Emigrant Flame' from graveside of John F Kennedy en route to New Ross town
Why John F Kennedy was reluctant to discuss Irish partition during 1963 visit
Irish snails show how descendents came from the Pyrenean region of France 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

Greatest quotes from and about Michael Collins
A tale of two famous Michaels, both born in Co Cork in the autumn of 1890
The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
Who killed Michael Collins? Questions still linger
The incredible life Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s 16th century pirate queen
Genealogy
