
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.

16 common Irish baby names that confuse the rest of the world
LAST CHANCE: Spread the joy of Ireland this festive season with this unique Irish gift box
A child’s Christmas in a West Kerry village
On This Day: James Hoban, the Kilkenny architect who designed the White House, died in 1831
Eyewitness account of a Great Famine workhouse on Christmas Day 1847
My ancestors as they were on the night of March 31st 1901
Ireland's top Christmas traditions that make the season
The Patrick Kavanagh poem that invokes Irish Christmas nostalgia
Ever wonder how many places in Ireland are called "bally"?
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- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
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- 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
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