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.
Viking artifacts suggest Cork is Ireland's oldest urban settlement
Don't believe these myths about the Irish
WATCH: AOH marks 175th anniversary of first report of Ireland’s potato blight
Remembering 9/11's first recorded victim, Irish American Father Mychal Judge
How Ireland's tradition of blind musicians led to a new vision for orchestral music
Irish man's Facebook post puts him in contact with long-lost relatives
Trump advisor Kimberly Guilfoyle’s political streak started with her County Clare father
Why you should go on a date with an Irish man
Father William Corby, the fighting chaplain of Notre Dame
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- 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
