
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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How a shipwreck in Co Donegal led to the writing of "Amazing Grace"
On This Day: Easter Rising leader Michael Mallin was executed
What's your Irish County? County Donegal
On This Day: Easter Rising leader Con Colbert was executed
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians gives back to our communities
Why is Derry also called Londonderry?
On This Day: The Lusitania sunk off the coast of County Cork
What's your Irish County? County Derry
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- 1 Come home to the West: Discover Ireland differently on Limerick Greenway
- 2 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 4 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 5 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 6 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 7 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 8 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 9 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
History

The Irish and Irish American signatories of the Declaration of Independence
175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
WATCH: Remarkable footage from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1940s
An Irish nun's friendship with Princess Diana
Genealogy
