
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.

Petition launched to rename Cork street after Frederick Douglass
Did an Irishwoman in Pennsylvania live to be 134 years old?
Newly-discovered Battle of Antietam map shows thousands of burials
Leprechauns are protected under European law
Irish America Hall of Fame: Jean Kennedy Smith
Elites at Newgrange showed signs of incest, study says
Wreckage of WWII boat commanded by JFK found in Harlem River
Win your Dad a subscription to Ireland of the Welcomes this Father’s Day
Humans of Dublin documents struggle growing up black in Ireland
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

The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
Who killed Michael Collins? Questions still linger
The incredible life Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s 16th century pirate queen
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians identity is rooted in history
On This Day: Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol received its first prisoners in 1796
Genealogy
