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.
When a farmer discovered an ancient Bronze Age tomb on Dingle Peninsula
When Elizabeth Taylor brought a pet monkey to her Dublin hotel
The Irish roots of Anne Rice, the queen of vampire novels
WATCH: Rare footage documents life in 1920s Ireland
John Wayne’s love of Ireland and "The Quiet Man"
NYC's Tenement Museum shouldn't go "woke"
New book suggests a way of finding meaning through ancient Celtic wisdom
Irish speakers around the world invited to join in #TrasnaNadTonnta this week
On This Day: Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty
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
Real stories of the women buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin
Why real Irish American history is not taught in schools
Cork wealthy dined on “turtle soup and champagne” during Ireland’s Great Hunger
From the Famine to Five Points - history of Irish pubs in the USA
The deadly Irish American serial killer nurse Jolly Jane
Genealogy
