
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.

A COVID 2020 poem - A Dublin night before Christmas
It's never been easier to explore your family’s Irish roots and history
The Canadian island with Irish accents
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
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 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

Vinny Byrne, the most feared assassin sent by Michael Collins
"Little Jimmy Murphy" - A United Irishmen song
Greatest quotes from and about Michael Collins
A tale of two famous Michaels, both born in Co Cork in the autumn of 1890
The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
Genealogy
