
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 Christmas Miracle: Loneliest Irishman finds someone to share Christmas with
Belfast-Beltway Boxing Project announced as winner of Ambassador Award
Bringing you closer to your Irish roots and spreading a special gift
And the top IrishCentral stories of 2013 were...envelope please!
How the Irish beat the Nazis: Swastika football program up for auction
Project inspired by Boston’s Freedom Trail to put 1916 Easter Rising on the map
Lucy and Thomas top baby names in Ireland for 2013
A year of sorrow, a year of pain, but some joy too
25-year-old female Catholic who likes her booze? You’re probably online dating
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
