
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.

Behind the name: Róisín, the perfect choice for your "little rose"
Irish origins of the surname Campbell
On This Day: 1916 Easter Rising leader Roger Casement is born
Traditional Irish family blessings from Ireland
Who was the Fairy King in ancient Celtic mythology?
Do you have news from your Irish community? Share it with our global audience
The old Irish ballads of emigration were our soundtrack in the Swinging Sixties
How kind people like you have cared for Irish hearts for 163 years...
Ireland's top Irish baby boy and girl names in 1990
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- 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
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