
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: St. Brendan the Navigator, an early transatlantic voyager, died in 587
WATCH: Co Leitrim locals dance at the crossroads for St. Patrick's Day 1953
The unlikely Irish county name that was given to 5 girls last year in the US
Erin International: Family heir search firm launches in U.S.
What's your Irish County? County Kildare
How Irish folklore inspired the black cat superstition
This Irish name is the most popular for boys born in the US - for the eighth year running!
The Claddagh community of Galway and its lasting traditions
What's your Irish County? County Galway
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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
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