
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.

IrishCentral’s Book of the Month: “Old Ireland in Colour” by John Breslin and Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley
Be like Liam Neeson! Plant your family heritage tree in Ireland
To Be Irish at Christmas - New diaspora initiative launched by Irish government
Oscar Wilde’s 11 best quotes on the anniversary of his death
Interesting facts about President John F. Kennedy
Fossils found in Northern Ireland belong to dinosaurs, study confirms
From the times of dinosaurs - Irish farmers fight to protect pearl mussels
How to greet someone like an Irish person
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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
