
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.

Last chance to plant your Irish family's roots in Ireland for Christmas
Irish names creep in to United Kingdom’s most popular baby names list
Christmas Message to the Diaspora from President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins
Did Ireland’s favorite folklore character the leprechaun really originate in Italy?
Major new ancient discovery as important as Stonehenge made thanks to Irish heatwave
How scientists finally solved the mystery of the Irish Famine
Cork City Council honors the centenary of the Burning of Cork
The Irish origins of the Christmas tree
On This Day: British forces begin the burning of Cork City
Most read
- 1 Come home to the West: Discover Ireland differently on Limerick Greenway
- 2 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 4 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 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

WATCH: Irish dance of yesteryear, amazing historic footage
The Irish and Irish American signatories of the Declaration of Independence
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
Genealogy
