
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.

Book review: ‘A Guide to Irish Parish Registers' by Brian Mitchell
The top five most wanted Irishmen in history
Irish mother’s letters to her son fighting in the US Civil War
Rare Irish Great Hunger rations book discovered (VIDEO)
The 1930s - When Irish Catholics changed America
Ireland forgets Irish emigrants who fought in US Civil War
Eleven early Hollywood stars with Irish roots
Genealogy goldmine as Ireland’s deaths, births and marriages go online
Are redheads in danger of extinction? Some scientists say yes
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
