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.
Barry Keoghan: From challenging Irish childhood to Oscar nominee
What makes Ireland’s national symbol the harp so special?
The history of The Clancy Brothers’ song “No Irish Need Apply”
Holocaust Remembrance Day: The only Irish citizen to die at Auschwitz
Fancy a cuppa? A history of tea in Ireland
When Charlie Chaplin visited James Larkin in Sing Sing
Irish bishops treated Ronald Reagan “like the plague” says historian
On This Day: Prohibition takes effect in the US in 1919
A full Irish breakfast - the essentials for the perfect Father's Day feed
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
Tea drinking in Ireland was once viewed as "reckless and uncontrollable"
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
Genealogy
