
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 Irish who narrowly escaped execution
Vice President Joe Biden set for Irish visit in late June
Washington DC statue of Robert Emmet rededicated
Is a thyroid problem a holdover from our famine ancestors?
Born on this day in 1806 was an Irishman who dueled with Abraham Lincoln
Vatican honors World War II Irish priest who saved thousands (VIDEO)
Roger Casement’s haunting letter eight days before his execution (VIDEO)
Baltimore remembers three Famine coffin ships packed with Irish
Cork’s Spike Island was the largest prison in the British Isles
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- 1 Irish adventure awaits at the 2025 Dublin Irish Festival in Dublin, Ohio
- 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
