
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.

The African American abolitionists who visited Ireland in the 1800s
One third of Irish people believe Leprechauns exist
The search for grave of Irish patriot Robert Emmet documented with new photo collection
Congressman Michael Fitzpatrick And Our "Lovely Leitrim" miracle moment
Top romantic places in Ireland to propose on Leap Day
Kennedy family photos like you've never seen before
Irish writer meets with the 'lonely hearts' who visit St. Valentine's Dublin shrine
Irish seniors together for decades talk about love
These are the most Irish metropolitan areas in the US
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- 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

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”
Who killed Michael Collins? Questions still linger
The incredible life Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s 16th century pirate queen
Genealogy
