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.
Tipperary-American and "The Peeler and the Goat"
How your Irish ancestors traditionally upheld Lent
A history of the Irish girl's name Albha
Exploring Elvis Presley’s Irish roots in County Wicklow
The Irish American who invented green beer for St. Patrick's Day
Ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day that don't involve a pub
Fun facts about St. Patrick’s Day celebrations around the world
The most popular baby names in Ireland over the last 50 years
WATCH: How glamorous was Galway in this 1957 tourism video?
Most read
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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
The Irish hands that built the Empire State Building
Mick the Miller: The most successful greyhound of all time
WATCH: Joan Baez's haunting version of "Carrickfergus" in 1989
Remembering the Clancy Brothers on the anniversary of Tom's death
Guy Fawkes was killed trying to restore a Catholic to British throne
Genealogy