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.
Explore Irish women's history over the last 100 years this International Women's Day
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Was St. Patrick a slave trader and tax collector?
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My mother’s emigrant heart: A story of immigration
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Share your story! What does St. Patrick's Day mean to you?
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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
Battle of the Boyne: Catholic troops were "dead drunk," firsthand account reveals
WATCH: This Aer Lingus advert from the 1960s will have you feeling nostalgic
Heartbreaking images from Northern Ireland remind us why we can never return to the Troubles
How Sybil Connolly led the Irish invasion into the fashion world
The incredible story of the first American ship to bring Famine relief to Ireland
Genealogy
