
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.

Three Irish siblings reunited after more than 50 years thanks to DNA tests
Ireland’s ancient martial art of stick fighting is making a comeback
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Lynch Clan
Irish genealogy gold! Jameson whiskey releases 100 years of employee records online
The Irishman who discovered DNA
Can you help identify this man in colorized video of 1920s Ireland?
“Death Census”: Understanding Ireland’s Famine at the level of the rural poor
We've planted a native tree in Ireland for the brilliant Irish novelist Edna O'Brien
John C. Reilly's strong Irish roots
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
