
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.

On This Day: Irish literary legend Brendan Behan is born in 1923
WATCH: Irish trad session in NYC's legendary Paddy Reilly’s more than 30 years ago
The top ten Irish outlaws and gangsters
Muckross House: A shining jewel on the Emerald Isle
The Legend of Brigid
On This Day: Michael Collins exacts revenge on John “Shankers” Ryan
Celebrate Irish female filmmakers this month with these free online screenings
EVENT: Embrace the beauty of St. Brigit with Woman's Spirit Ireland tomorrow
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- 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
