
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.

Michael Collins and his Twelve Apostles --new bestseller book by Tim Pat Coogan
The Celtic Cross, then and now
The expression 'Irish Thanksgiving' is illogical, lazy
Did the Celts build "America’s Stonehenge" 4,000 years ago?
Michael Collins was a great lover as well as a fearsome fighter
Italian boxers took Irish names to deter discrimination
Too few Americans visit our war dead: Remembering US involvement in WWI
Adopted siblings travel to Ireland to sadly discover their mothers have passed away
How speaking Irish saved my life on the run from United Arab Emirates police
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

On This Day: Michael Collins killed in an ambush in Co Cork
Final days of Michael Collins: ambush, assassination, and peace talks in Ireland's Civil War
"Galway Bay" - the mystery man who wrote the classic song
The makers of Michael Collins' death mask believed he was shot at close range
On This Day: A US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison
Genealogy
