
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.

Celebrate National Oyster Day with this Ballymaloe recipe
Becky Kelleher's fight for her son’s health and wellness
East Boston high schoolers raise $5,000 for Irish toddler with cancer
Our Postmen are going, going…
Irish dance makeup and wig ban proves popular (VIDEO)
The artist helping kids in underserved communities unleash creative potential
Top ten reasons to visit Ireland through a mother’s eyes
Corned beef and spinach Irish bread braid recipe
Philadelphia's busiest friend of Ireland
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

A tale of two famous Michaels, both born in Co Cork in the autumn of 1890
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
Genealogy
