
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.

Ireland's war: Life during the Emergency
Traditional Irish naming patterns
The special love-hate relationship between Irish and Italian Americans
Is Ireland's oldest business Sean’s Bar from 900AD? Some disagree
The Irish woman who worked as a nanny for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis
Trinity launch conference and online course for 1916 Rising centenary (PHOTOS & VIDEO)
From Galway Bay to Taxi-ing down the Thames... Irishmen in the Waterman Records
Tracing your Irish roots: The quagmire of administrative districts - part 2
What are the most egotistical Irish names?
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: Irish literary star Oscar Wilde born in Dublin in 1854
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
Genealogy
