
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.

On This Day: Oliver Cromwell sets sail to Ireland in 1649
One Irish family's story of emigration - the Dunnings from Drumlosh
Milwaukee Irish Fest starts this week, here's our event guide on what not to miss!
On This Day: Father Michael McGivney, the Founder of the Knights of Columbus was born
On This Day: An Irish doctor survives the bombing of Nagasaki
Remembering Daniel O’Connell's final tragic plea to save Ireland from Famine on his anniversary
Tommy O'Connor: the vital link between the US and Ireland ahead of the 1916 Easter Rising
Roger Casement and John Devoy's unlikely friendship
The ten worst ways to insult an Irishman
Most read
- 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
