
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.

Michael Collins' love letters to Kitty Kiernan up for auction in New York
Visit to ancestral home marks 100 years of Ford cars in Ireland
Fighting for a sacred resting place for thousands of Famine dead on Staten Island
Oliver Cromwell was a "metrosexual" obsessed with his appearance
Researchers traced Irish fair skin back to India and the Middle East
How an ancient Irish treasure was found in a dumpster
10,000-year-old settlement found in Cork
A “litany of mishaps and disasters” lead up to the 1916 Easter Rising
The crucial facts about Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising in one easy infographic
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

How Sybil Connolly led the Irish invasion into the fashion world
The incredible story of the first American ship to bring Famine relief to Ireland
When a London Irishman broke into Queen Elizabeth's Buckingham Palace chambers
New NORAID documentary challenges Irish American 'Plastic Paddy' stereotype
Old hand-colored photos of Ireland’s heritage sites give glimpse into past
Genealogy
