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.
A Man in Full - exclusive interview with CIA Director John Brennan
The surprising Irish history behind Hennessy Cognac
1950s Irish orphan’s happy ever after in New York
Halloween: An Irish invention and an American export
Pipe found at tragic Duffy’s Cut burial site will be returned home to Derry
Michael Fassbender beams with pride for his Kerry roots (VIDEO)
Lost brother: Uncovering an Irish family history in America
The Gaelic Revival in Ireland and America
Columbus Day, and the similarities between the Irish and the Italian
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: A colorful look at 1940 Dublin, "a city of romance and contrasts"
Kerryman leads charge to save Great Hunger collection in America
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
WATCH: Ellis Island - The gateway that welcomed 3.5 million Irish to America
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Countess Constance Markievicz died in 1927
Genealogy
