
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.

Definitive guide to understanding Irish place names
Ireland’s historical newspapers – The Freeman’s Journal
Shop Connemara Marble's new jewelry collection - official heritage stone of Ireland
These Irish baby names are becoming super trendy in the US
Pittsburgh Irish Festival! Here is the lineup & new events you can expect
The most common surnames in Ireland and their meanings
Two Irish names among the most rare baby names in the United States
The official top 10 Irish surnames - is yours one of them?
"Quiet Man" John Ford's Irish upbringing and incredible career
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- 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

WATCH: Irish dance of yesteryear, amazing historic footage
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
Genealogy
