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.
Saint Patrick and Turin Castle County Mayo
Listen: Fighting the Great Famine in Ireland
Discovering my Irish roots – “home” is where my heart is, not where I was born
Experts predict this baby boy name will be 2018's most popular - and it's Irish!
First Irishman was black with blue eyes says genetic expert
Canadian government want Kerry Island to become UNESCO World Heritage site
Trinity digitally recreates seven centuries of Irish history lost in 1922 Four Courts fire
Frasier’s John Mahoney’s Irish roots and deep love for Galway
Irish Americans asked to clarify their ethnic identity in 2020 census
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- 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
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
