
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.

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Charlie Haughey sat on Queen Victoria’s throne after visit by Margaret Thatcher
The Irish Homecoming - Motherhood and a booming business career takes its toll but the bright side wins through
The fascinating tale of ordinary life at 16 Moore Street during the 1916 Rising
Bleeding Dubliners (Dubs) speak a language all of their own
Ireland tourism board should use country’s history and heritage to give it an international edge
Irish redheads owe their unique coloring to a lack of sunlight says new research
Irish Georgian Society opposes new memorial to abuse victims in Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance
Ring of Cork Festival promises adventure, crafts, culture, cookery, craic and ceoil
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

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
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians identity is rooted in history
On This Day: Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol received its first prisoners in 1796
Genealogy
