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.
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
Your Irish roots online, a guide to some of the best genealogy sites
Macklemore and Saoirse Ronan record poem in Irish for music project
IrishCentral celebrates Family History Month this October
The mystery man who went to Ireland to disappear
Ireland's most picturesque historic villages
President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Irish Brigade
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
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
"Most dangerous woman in America" - Mother Jones remembered for a life of labour and defiance
Titanic hero Irishman Thomas Andrews epitomized bravery as ship went down
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
Genealogy
