
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.

Explore the timeline of W.B. Yeats life on the 150th anniversary of his birth
Nicole Kidman’s Irish ancestors
19th century medicine in Ireland
Irishmen and their World War One wills
Montreal ‘Walk to the Stone” commemorates 6,000 Irish famine victims
US owner of destroyed 'Quiet Man' cottage opposes protected status
How Hollywood’s “The Quiet Man” transformed the tranquil village of Cong
Remembering Hennessy and Lafayette 250 years on (VIDEO)
Famous Irish family trees: Daniel Day-Lewis
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

Ireland's Gaelic games: A deep dive into Irish culture and heritage
The origins of Ireland's national anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann
WATCH: One of James Cagney's last films was about the Irish War of Independence
The last letter written on board the doomed Titanic
On This Day: Irish literary star Oscar Wilde born in Dublin in 1854
Genealogy
