
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.

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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: Samuel Beckett won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969
Yikes! Ahead of Halloween these vintage costumes still terrify
WATCH: Kennedy’s Irish homecoming, a defining moment of heritage and hope
These are some of the most haunted places in Ireland to visit
WATCH: A breathtaking look at Aran Island inhabitants nearly 100 years ago
Genealogy
