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.
How the redhead gene evolved due to lack of sunlight
Maureen O'Hara and the most famous redheads in history
The Irish railroad workers who made Erin, Tennessee home
The forgotten Irish American verses of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
These uncommon Irish names are "great" options in the US, experts say
Irish monk's poem on death for All Soul's Day
JFK's "hopeless" romance with an Irish American starlet
On This Day: Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands during WWII, died in 1963
Delving into Irish wedding traditions and history
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- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
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- 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
