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.
57th Corona Cork Film Festival set to screen 300 Irish and international movies
How the Benedictine Nuns have run Kylemore Abbey for the past 100 years - despite all the odds
Feature length documentary on George Clooney’s Irish roots set to premiere in Kilkenny
Google Earth image finds ancient Irish settlement at Hill of Tara
The five worst Irish storms of all time remembered
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Ireland in the 1970s – a powerful new book by historian Diarmuid Ferriter
County Derry Artist Adrian Margey’s artwork offers a slice of home
IN-NYC and BZH New York celebrate the Celtic New Year in Manhattan
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
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
Real stories of the women buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin
Why real Irish American history is not taught in schools
Cork wealthy dined on “turtle soup and champagne” during Ireland’s Great Hunger
Genealogy
