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.
The many, mighty Irish American Ryans of D-Day
How modern Ireland was created
The hidden link between hurling and ice hockey
Washington Ireland Program launches largest ever Class
When nationalists burned down an Irish castle during IRA hunger strikes
An emigrant's praise of Irish rain
The children's thank you book that highlighted Ireland's post-war aid to Germany
Divers discover ancient artifacts in River Shannon while searching for missing persons
Northern Ireland's most popular and unusual Irish baby names of 2020 revealed
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
