
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.

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
Maine Irish Heritage Center receives $3 million in federal funding for renovations
Most read
- 1 Come home to the West: Discover Ireland differently on Limerick Greenway
- 2 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 4 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 5 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 6 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 7 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 8 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 9 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
History

175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
WATCH: Remarkable footage from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1940s
An Irish nun's friendship with Princess Diana
On This Day: Irish American hero Thomas Francis Meagher died in 1867
Genealogy
