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.
Mystery spontaneous combustion in Ireland among world’s strangest deaths
Bobby Kennedy's Anniversary: Healer between the races needed more than ever today
The "Flying Irishman" of Lafayette remembered this D-Day anniversary
Advice to young ladies in 19th century Ireland
This isn't the first time the Irish have had to forge a future
How much Irish is actually spoken in Ireland today?
Is the Celtic symbol for new beginnings entirely made up?
"We are all connected " - Irish American donates water tank to Navajo Nation
On This Day: Loyalist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan kill 34 in 1974
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
