
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.

D-Day hero honors WWII Irish soldiers during French highest honor acceptance speech
Sinn Fein takes major step as McGuinness to honor World War I Irish
5 things you didn't know about your Mayo ancestors
1,500-year-old Galway bones and antlers believed to be part of ancient rituals
Quinnipiac Irish Famine museum puts records of the Great Hunger online
Debates bound to arise surrounding the 1916 Easter Rising centenary
“Building Ireland” looks at rumor Drogheda viaduct was built on foundations of Cotton Wool
4,000 year-old pit discovered on Sligo’s Coney Island
Long-lost Irish cousins reunited in Boston after 86 years
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
