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 top baby names for girls and boys in Ireland 1973
4,500-year-old boat was among Galway Viking artifacts hoard discovery
Viking warriors and treasures are buried beneath Dublin
A history of mashed potatoes… and it's not Irish
Study claims that Irishmen descended from Turkish farmers
“Between the jigs and reels” – what’s behind my Irish Granny’s sayings
Celebrate Grandparents Day by honoring them with a heritage tree planted in Ireland
WATCH: John F. Kennedy assassination footage never seen before goes up for auction
Ireland's top archaeological finds
Most read
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- 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
On This Day: Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands during WWII, died in 1963
Exploring the truth and reality on Irish Famine coffin ships
The origins of anti-Irish jokes and how they impacted Irish worldwide
Stand with Irish stories and sustain independent journalism
On This Day: Irish-born Captain John Lonergan awarded the Medal of Honor in 1893
Genealogy
