
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.

Honoring how America helped the survival of the Irish language
On This Day: President de Valera becomes honorary Native American chieftain
Who Do You Think You Are? - this season's biggest revelations
The mystery of 1916 leader and New Yorker Éamon de Valera’s birth
This week in history: JFK signs the nuclear test ban treaty in 1963
Melissa McCarthy channels her Irish roots in ‘The Kitchen’
Irish baby names become top choice in Hollywood
On This Day: The Ulster Covenant is signed in 1912
An Irish Mammy, the luck of the Irish, and the Beatles
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
