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.
Plans begin in earnest with a series of town-hall style meetings for The Gathering 2013
In Focus: Mary McDonagh Murphy, Emmy Award winning journalist
Mommy Diaries evolves into The Irish Homecoming -- It’s Great to Be Back Home
New evidence shows Turkey delivered food to Ireland during the famine
A beautiful spot in Connemara that is hard to beat in Ireland
Shrine of St. Manchan relic recovered after being stolen on Friday in Offaly
Mind, Tory, Puck - the history of Irish words still used today in modern English
“I am neither American nor Irish” - Growing up Woodlawn with Irish parents
In Focus: Niall O’Leary - Irish dance teacher, adjudicator and musician
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
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
From the Famine to Five Points - history of Irish pubs in the USA
The deadly Irish American serial killer nurse Jolly Jane
Genealogy