
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.

The top Irish Christmas songs for caroling!
Hanukkah menorahs have become a favorite Christmas decoration for the Irish
The Irish foods that expats miss the most at Christmas time
3,500 records from Ireland’s War of Independence to be released
New podcast series explores Beatles' Irish roots
On This Day: Titanic struck an iceberg despite receiving warnings
New "Irish Soldier" virtual exhibit now available at the Museum of the American Revolution
WATCH: Fascinating footage of an Irish community gathering peat 100 years ago
The businessman remembered as one of Ireland's richest men
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
