
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.

The Irish contribution to Major League Baseball
The Irish Confederate who has a city and two counties in the US named after him
Irish Heritage Tree planted in honor of James Joyce's Ulysses
WATCH: This short Irish film features the best parts of old Ireland
St. Patrick's Festival is back! Schedule revealed for biggest Irish event of the year
Try these Irish terms of endearment on Valentine's Day
The best real-life Irish love stories for St. Valentine’s Day
The Dublin doctor who fought to end slavery and Irish racism in the US
On This Day: Larry Cunningham, Irish country music singer, born in 1938
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 historic Donegal lodge that paved the way for Irish seaside resorts
WATCH: Short film reveals the terrible history of 'No Irish Need Apply'
Maureen O'Hara's "sex scandal" that led to a libel case
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians identity is rooted in history
On This Day: Michael Collins killed in an ambush in Co Cork
Genealogy
