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.
What have the Irish done for America?
Ireland’s historic Birth Information and Tracing Act signed into law
Irish famine emigrant's emotional letter home to Mom and Dad in 1850
Happy birthday Katie Taylor! To celebrate we've planted her a tree in Ireland
Did you know you can stay at a Quiet Man-themed B&B in Ireland?
First color photos of Ireland taken by two French women in 1913
The Fenian Lazarus, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, died in New York in 1915
This son of an Irish emigrant invented Artificial Intelligence and changed the world
Irish Heritage Tree plants a native tree in Ireland in honor of Irish gay icon Oscar Wilde
Most read
- 1 Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
- 2 Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
The deadly Irish American serial killer nurse Jolly Jane
The unique Irish history of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood cemetery
Ireland's last witch trial, over 300 years ago, condemned eight innocent women
Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
Kilmainham Gaol reveals surprise link between Jessie Buckley and 1916 Rising
Genealogy
