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.
Famine episode of 'Victoria' TV drama that "shocked" British airs on PBS tonight
LISTEN: When the potato blight hit and terror ensued during Ireland's Famine
The changing identity of Irish and Irishness in a global context
Coming home - following my dream to visit Ireland, where I belong
The Irish flag was flown for the first time 170 years ago in Waterford
Saints named me - my very Irish names and its legacy
435-million-year-old starfish fossil found in Galway
Irish, Catholic American - why I’m part of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
Winona Ryder discovers her Irish roots after ancestor's secret adoption
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
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
