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.
Free entry to Irish heritage sites for the rest of the year
Irish amateur archeologists discover Cairn using Google Earth
Frederick Douglass Way in Dublin to launch virtually on May 14
Irish boy's name revealed as most popular in the US in 2020
Galway's victims of the Great Hunger and exiled immigrants recalled
The Shamrock Children: German refugees who found shelter in Ireland after WWII
On VE Day, recalling this Irishman's horrific World War II experience
On This Day: Easter Rising leader Seán Heuston was executed
VE Day, the end of WWII in Europe, was marked with civil disturbances around Dublin
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
