
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.

Ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day that don't involve a pub
Fun facts about St. Patrick’s Day celebrations around the world
The most popular baby names in Ireland over the last 50 years
WATCH: How glamorous was Galway in this 1957 tourism video?
Celebrate Valentine's Day by gifting an Irish Heritage Tree planted in Ireland
Ireland’s very own Valentine was a 17th-century healer
St. Patrick’s Festival 2023! What to expect from this year's global Irish celebration
Love-seekers show up at St. Valentine's resting place in Dublin
How did Ireland come to be called the Emerald Isle?
Most read
- 1 CIE Tours reveal huge Ireland sale! Save on ALL guided vacations for 2026 travel
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History

How to celebrate the Summer Solstice the Irish way
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin
How Irish American US General Philip Sheridan paved the way for Juneteenth
The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland
On This Day: Six people killed during Loughinisland Massacre in Co Down
Genealogy
