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.
Queen’s University Belfast graduate carves out successful career tracing family roots
"Disrespectful": Irish politician slams people who call St. Patrick's Day "Paddy's Day"
Is Irish America fading away? New data from Chicago Irish community
Star Wars' Mark Hamill to act as guest of honor at St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin
Liam Neeson wants to know why we can't have women priests
Coming home to Cork and finding my great grandfather
TV hosts spark outrage by saying Northern Ireland isn't part of Great Britain - but they're right!
Craic in California: LA-based Irish expats organize St. Patrick's Day 'adults-only’ race event
St. Patricks Day is now the fourth most popular 'drinking day' in the US
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- 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
Original historic US documents to go on display in Belfast this year
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
Genealogy