
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.

Matthew McConaughey hopes to send his kids to the Gaeltacht
30 Irish Americans making the world a better place
When an American student found a 12th century Irish brooch on a Galway Beach
When an American student found a 12th century Irish brooch on a Galway Beach
Diary of an Irish rebel fighting in the 1916 Easter Rising
Michael Collins' secret - who was in charge of the "Twelve Apostles" hit squad?
How England feared the Irish would take over Australia after Easter Rising
Irish last names increasingly popular as first names in America
Rhode Island woman's quest uncovers hundreds of Irish Famine graves
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

WATCH: Irish history expert Davy Holden on the Fenian Brotherhood in NYC
Battle of the Boyne: Catholic troops were "dead drunk," firsthand account reveals
WATCH: This Aer Lingus advert from the 1960s will have you feeling nostalgic
Heartbreaking images from Northern Ireland remind us why we can never return to the Troubles
How Sybil Connolly led the Irish invasion into the fashion world
Genealogy
