
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.

Spancil Hill - The tale behind the famous Irish ballad
Irish woman reunited with long-lost father tragically reveals he has Alzheimer's
LISTEN: The greatest songs of The Troubles in Northern Ireland
Best songs of the 1916 Easter Rising
On This Day: Hurricane Charley blows into Ireland in 1986
The disturbing origins of the Irish Famine term “take the soup”
Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
On This Day: Brian Keenan released by Shi’ite militiamen in 1990
Former NFL placekicker sets sights on All-Ireland appearance with New York
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

WATCH: Dr Jeremiah Lane: Ireland’s “oldest GP” practiced medicine into his late 90s
Irish author remembered today on "The Duchess Who Wasn't" Day
Royal roots unearthed: Queen Elizabeth’s lineage traces back to Brian Boru
The Troubles remembered: 3,500 lives lost and its lingering echoes
On this day: In 1725 Dublin children received the first smallpox vaccination
Genealogy
