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.
Millions of Irish birth, marriage, and death records available for free online
The history and origins of traditional Irish music
Native Irish tree planting farm located on a former secret WWII airbase
Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
Did Ireland’s ancient August Lughnasa games influence the Olympics?
The "Bad Bridgets" - forgotten Famine era single pregnant women who fled to America
The forgotten righteous Jew who saved thousands of Irish lives during the famine
Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
Monaghan census records from the 1500s go online
Most read
- 1 Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
- 2 Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
St. Patrick’s Breastplate: the prayer of Ireland's patron saint
St. Patrick’s Day on Achill Island - a day unlike any other
WATCH: Irish Colleens mark St. Patrick's Day more than a century ago
Ireland's spring equinox and St. Patrick's Day's pagan connection
On This Day: George Brent, the Irish rebel turned Hollywood star, was born in 1904
Genealogy
