
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.

Long-lost Irish cousins reunited in Boston after 86 years
New bog body found by peat worker most likely from Bronze Age
Irish political cartoons from Home Rule period acquired by Great Hunger Institute (PHOTOS)
Famous quotes from the most influential Irish authors
The impact of the Irish on the American railway system
Photo shows outlaw Billy the Kid as clean cut and preppy
Massachusetts conference explores Irish immigrants’ influence on US
Ireland to overturn thousands of antiquated laws dating back to the 1600s
What should Ireland’s national motto be?
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

The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
Who killed Michael Collins? Questions still linger
The incredible life Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s 16th century pirate queen
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians identity is rooted in history
On This Day: Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol received its first prisoners in 1796
Genealogy
