
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 Bloody Monday riots of 1855 were the most horrific attack on Irish Catholic immigrants
Five Irish American serial killers and evil doers - the worst Irish on earth
Irish housekeeper of the Confederate White House
The story behind teenage Bill Clinton and JFK’s handshake
What’s up with leprechauns - the truth about the little people
Irish Great Hunger tells its lessons but will we listen?
Did British "James Bond" kill two NYPD cops to get US into WW2?
Irish American war hero reunited with lost Purple Heart medal
True scale and violence of Ireland War of Independence as seen from Kerry
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 historic Donegal lodge that paved the way for Irish seaside resorts
WATCH: Short film reveals the terrible history of 'No Irish Need Apply'
Maureen O'Hara's "sex scandal" that led to a libel case
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians identity is rooted in history
On This Day: Michael Collins killed in an ambush in Co Cork
Genealogy
