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.
IRA attempted to kidnap future King of England
How four Irishmen found the largest pot of silver ever known in Nevada
How Michael Collins was protected and betrayed by two Dublin porters
Dig at Duffy’s Cut to recover 50 Irish cholera and murder victims resumes
National Geographic captures color and beauty of Ireland in 1927 (PHOTOS)
How Michael Collins came within hours of immigrating to Chicago
Irish US World War I soldier finally gets full burial rite in Leitrim
Following in the steps of hope and hunger along the National Famine Walk
How the Connecticut Irish shaped Irish American history
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- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
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- 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
On This Day: William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize in 1923
The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
On This Day: Five brave Sullivan brothers killed on same day during WWII
Lance-Corporal Michael O’Leary, a true Irish WWI hero
Family historians urged to check out 1911 census
Genealogy