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.
Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
April Fools! Some of the best pranks in Irish history
On This Day: Ireland's Easter Rising begins in 1916
Plaque unveiled to mark birth place of Harry Clarke, Irish stained glass artist & illustrator
Titanic timeline: Tracing the famous ship's creation and demise
The gorgeous Irish girl’s name that is climbing the charts rapidly
Where did the phrase "Forty Shades of Green" for Ireland come from?
Ireland's most famous witchcraft trials
This vintage Irish baby name was used less than three times in 2025
Most read
- 1 Secrets of the Daniel O’Connell monument in Dublin
- 2 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 3 What is Bloomsday? Why does James Joyce's "Ulysses" matter so much?
- 4 IrishCentral Book Club's ultimate Irish reading list
- 5 WATCH: Ireland as seen from a horse-drawn caravan 50 years ago
- 6 John Lennon was getting ready to retire to Co Mayo before his tragic death
- 7 Was the real King Arthur Irish?
- 8 Yeats’s Nobel Prize win marked a turning point in Irish literature
- 9 Celebrating the genius of James Joyce on Bloomsday
