
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.

Holt McCallany's Irish roots: Mindhunter star once lived in Dublin
Patrick MacMahon, the Irishman who became president of France
The ongoing battle to preserve the Irish language in Ireland
WATCH: Newsreel footage of post 1916 Easter Rising Dublin
The first meeting of hurling's great GAA foes: Tipperary v Kilkenny
The Old Ones Were Brown - the heritage passed down from Co Mayo
Irish should celebrate the deep connection between Newfoundland and Ireland
Watch celebrations in Ireland as The Republic of Ireland Act came into effect
The only official Gaeltacht outside of Ireland is in Canada
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

New TG4 series 'Ó Mhuir Go Tír' explores Ireland's island transportation evolution
The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland
On This Day: Edward Bruce, the last High King of Ireland, dies in 1318
Halloween - an Irish invention, an American export
The mystery of 1916 leader and New Yorker Éamon de Valera’s birth
Genealogy
