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.
St. Patrick’s Day photo competition - win a Certificate of Irish Heritage this March
Murder in a time of cholera remembered as Duffy’s Cut Irish victims finally reburied
New York’s livery cabs to go green - but not in time for St. Patrick’s Day
Pop culture's favorite Leprechauns
Grand Marshals chosen around Ireland for St. Patrick’s Day festivities
Inishfree New York honors World Champion Paige Turilli - PHOTOS
A Weight Watchers guide to St. Patrick’s Day dieting
Ireland’s most unromantic men named and shamed
Titanic letter is on its way back to Belfast thanks to anonymous donor
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