
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.

When a farmer discovered an ancient Bronze Age tomb on Dingle Peninsula
When Elizabeth Taylor brought a pet monkey to her Dublin hotel
The Irish roots of Anne Rice, the queen of vampire novels
WATCH: Rare footage documents life in 1920s Ireland
John Wayne’s love of Ireland and "The Quiet Man"
NYC's Tenement Museum shouldn't go "woke"
New book suggests a way of finding meaning through ancient Celtic wisdom
Irish speakers around the world invited to join in #TrasnaNadTonnta this week
On This Day: Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty
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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
