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.
Why is the Irish border where it is?
What's your Irish County? County Limerick
What's your Irish County? County Laois
What's your Irish County? County Leitrim
Some fun facts about Leprechauns, Ireland's most famous legend
Check out the first look at Ireland of the Welcomes 70th anniversary issue
What's your Irish County? County Dublin
The County Cork farmer behind Irish Heritage Tree's second forest
What's your Irish County? County Down
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- 2 Ways you know you grew up in the Irish countryside
- 3 The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
- 4 Gone to America - a haunting abandoned house in Donegal reveals its story
- 5 Summer of strikes: Every European walkout that could wreck your holiday flights this summer
- 6 This Irish brown bread ice cream recipe is unexpectedly good
- 7 First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time
- 8 Irish country green spring soup recipe
- 9 Cool, calm and Celtic: why Ireland makes the perfect coolcation
History