
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 history of the Irish in the final season of "Mad Men"
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Protecting the dawn chorus through nests lined with human hair
County Mayo people worldwide will celebrate “Mayo Day”
Was 1916 leader Joseph Plunkett a roller-skating champion in Algeria?
On This Day: Republic of Ireland Act comes into effect in 1949
U.S. Ambassador to Ireland goes home to his Mayo roots
Missing 1,490 remembered in Famine walk from Strokestown to Dublin
Could Orange be the new green in Ireland as some are seeking?
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: A US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison
Final days of Michael Collins: ambush, assassination, and peace talks in Ireland's Civil War
How the killing of Michael Collins changed Ireland for the worse
The Toronto doctor who cared for Ireland’s Great Hunger victims
Vinny Byrne, the most feared assassin sent by Michael Collins
Genealogy
