
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.

National Family History Month: Our surprising adventures chasing ancestors in Ireland
Bridget Cleary, "the last witch burned in Ireland"
Irish America’s tumultuous history and today’s heart-wrenching immigrant crisis
Can taking a DNA test tell what kind of music you’re into?
Spooky and smart Irish Halloween costume ideas
On this day, the 1981 hunger strikes ended - Could Margaret Thatcher have prevented their deaths?
PODCAST: Life and death of Irish highwayman James McLaine
Great-grandfather of former Obama UN ambassador saved Michael Collins’ life
National Family History Month: American woman's search for her Irish roots pays off
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History

WATCH: A colorful look at 1940 Dublin, "a city of romance and contrasts"
Kerryman leads charge to save Great Hunger collection in America
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
WATCH: Ellis Island - The gateway that welcomed 3.5 million Irish to America
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Countess Constance Markievicz died in 1927
Genealogy
