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.
Ireland's first poet president - Douglas Hyde
Irishman Francis McHugh - A gentleman of the highway
In search of descendants to Ireland's Great Hunger bride orphans
Why Michael Collins' hat was removed from a Dublin museum
Facebook series captures the history of Charlestown, Boston's Irish neighborhood
Michael Collins named as Britain’s second greatest foe, after George Washington
Young priest murdered by the Black and Tans remembered
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Feeney clan
On This Day: The Young Ireland rebellion against the British comes to a quick end
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
