
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.

Massive Irish American effort to end insulting St. Patrick’s Day gifts
How Irish language words helped create the English language
Rare photograph of teenage Kevin Barry to be sold at Dublin auction house
Joyce riddle of how to cross Dublin without passing a pub solved
Famous 'Battle of Contarf' painting returned from Hawaii for 1,000th anniversary
Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute to be inducted into Hall of Fame
IrishCentral wants you to show your Irish pride
Ten things Americans do better than Irish people
Sales of Irish whiskey in North America up 17.5 percent
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
