
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 most popular baby names in Ireland over the last 50 years
WATCH: How glamorous was Galway in this 1957 tourism video?
Celebrate Valentine's Day by gifting an Irish Heritage Tree planted in Ireland
Ireland’s very own Valentine was a 17th-century healer
St. Patrick’s Festival 2023! What to expect from this year's global Irish celebration
Love-seekers show up at St. Valentine's resting place in Dublin
How did Ireland come to be called the Emerald Isle?
On This Day: Iconic Irish actor David Kelly dies in 2012
How the Irish (and Welsh) invented romantic love
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- 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
