
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.

Study claims that Irishmen descended from Turkish farmers
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- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 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
History

The sad decline of traditional Gaeltacht practices
On This Day: Edward Flanagan, the Irish founder of Boys Town, was born
WATCH: Irish history expert Davy Holden on the Fenian Brotherhood in NYC
Could this be the oldest known video of Ireland?
Battle of the Boyne: Catholic troops were "dead drunk," firsthand account reveals
Genealogy
