
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.

A guide to starting your Irish Family Tree – part two
WATCH: Drive back in time through 1970s Dublin with this rare video
Today marks the 92nd anniversary of the death of Michael Collins
Historic sites on Inishark Island destroyed by winter storms
Croke Park Classic a special homecoming for UCF coach George O’Leary
10,000 register for Trinity College Dublin’s first online Irish History course
Franco-Irish army drove the British out of Castlebar, 216 years ago today
Andy Warhol and the most notorious Irish gangsters in New York
Kelsey Grammer catches Oregon fever!
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
