
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.

St. Patrick picked the wrong day
The backbone of the neighborhood, a behind-the-scenes hero
Bronx bar in competition for the world’s shortest St. Patrick’s Day parade
The senior who gave up his Meals on Wheels so someone else could eat
14-year-old Irish American cowboy digs deep during devastating floods
Uncover the Irish history of Boston this St. Patrick’s Day
The Irish in the Crimea and the Charge of the Light Brigade
Stunning travel video of "7 Days in Ireland"
The woman looking out for New York’s 52,000 homeless
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
