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.
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
The Irish roots of The Doors Jim Morrison and how they influenced him
Everything you need to know about popular Irish names
Actress Jane Russell's adoption of Irish baby nearly ended her career
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 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
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