
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.

Halloween dig reveals 5,000-year-old tomb under haunted Hellfire Club
Always wanted to speak Irish? Get started here (VIDEOS)
New York Irish, slavery, the Civil War and Archbishop 'Dagger' Hughes
Last living sibling of John F. Kennedy celebrates her 91st birthday
Irish speakers from Australia to Canada hold world record conversation
Mark Twain’s ancestor was ‘witchfinder general’ in Belfast trial
A Man in Full - exclusive interview with CIA Director John Brennan
The surprising Irish history behind Hennessy Cognac
1950s Irish orphan’s happy ever after in New York
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

WATCH: When Ted Kennedy visited in Ireland in 1962
A look at Irish American John L. Sullivan, the greatest boxer of his era
LISTEN: What you should know about the Irish folk song "The Rattlin' Bog"
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Prize for Literature this month in 1995
Irish man's incredible correspondence from the US Civil War
Genealogy
