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 top 10: Irish writers at their best
Can you be both New York and Irish? Leading Irish writers reflect on heritage
Famous Galway bookstore and art gallery turns 80 this November
Does a mythical island really exist off the coast of Ireland?
How Sybil Connolly led the Irish invasion into the fashion world
Irish Traveller Manor Donohue to scribe a book on his rich heritage
Famine museum launches new 27-stage "National Famine Way"
The truth about the "Nine Famous Irishmen" myth - It’s fake news mostly
Exploring the legend of the Molly Maguires
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
DNA test led a Chicago woman to find family ties to Mrs. O’Leary of the Great Fire fame
University of Galway launched digital database of Irish American emigrant letters
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
Genealogy
