
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.

Ireland's annual season of summer school think-ins is in full swing
Ad king James O’Shaughnessy was the Irish-speaking son of a poor Galway emigrant
20,000 Irishmen fought for Canada in World War I
TV review: Who Do You Think You Are? Season 5, episode 3
Today, why not pig out on this Irish classic – bacon, cabbage and potatoes!
Discover your Irish ancestor’s day in court
Could the four bodies found at Trinity roadworks be Vikings?
WATCH: Historic footage of 1956 Irish Army marching in "peacetime exercise"
3,500-year-old sword discovered by dive club in Shannon River
Most read
- 1 Irish adventure awaits at the 2025 Dublin Irish Festival in Dublin, Ohio
- 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

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
On This Day: Irish American hero Thomas Francis Meagher died in 1867
Genealogy
