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.
Top ten things every Irish dancer is thankful for this Thanksgiving
One of Ireland’s smallest counties is loving getting back to its roots - launches Leitrim Roots Festival 2013
Pre-famine petition supporting English lord could act as a census substitute for 1841 Ireland
Irish Americans encouraged to join international O’Neill gathering in Ireland
“How I Met Your Mother” star Alyson Hannigan has trouble spelling her daughter’s Irish name
Prayer book of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins discovered in France
Sandy Seisiuns kick off - Irish musicians aid Breezy Point and the Rockaways
Christmas magic - turning Santa Claus skeptics into believers
Wigging out at the Mid Atlantic Regional Oireachtas in Philadelphia
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
