
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.

Damian McGinty excited for Derry’s City of Culture celebrations in 2013
Emigrant Rose of Tralee contestants reflect Ireland in recession - VIDEOS
The matchmaker Willie Daly reports most successful year to date - VIDEO
When a Category 3 hurricane struck Ireland in 1839
Ancestors from Kerry? Trace your roots with new service
In Focus: Kevin McCormack, a traditional Irish musican based in New York- VIDEO
Veteran matchmaker Willie Daly reports most successful year to date
New dating site for Irish 'ugly people' a huge success
News from Ireland - news from around the 32 counties
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

Brendan Behan discovers New York City
On This Day, the man behind "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," Ernest Ball was born
Can you help identify this man in colorized video of 1920s Ireland?
How the illegitimate son of a Sligo man became the father of Chilean independence
WATCH: A rare look at Belfast in the 1920s
Genealogy
