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.
Michael Collins' love letters to Kitty Kiernan up for auction in New York
Visit to ancestral home marks 100 years of Ford cars in Ireland
Fighting for a sacred resting place for thousands of Famine dead on Staten Island
Oliver Cromwell was a "metrosexual" obsessed with his appearance
Researchers traced Irish fair skin back to India and the Middle East
10,000-year-old settlement found in Cork
A “litany of mishaps and disasters” lead up to the 1916 Easter Rising
The crucial facts about Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising in one easy infographic
Matthew McConaughey hopes to send his kids to the Gaeltacht
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
Ireland's most famous witchcraft trials
What you should know about Irish American mobster “The Irishman” Danny Greene
WATCH: Drive back in time through 1970s Dublin with this rare video
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
Genealogy