
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.

Was St. Patrick a slave trader and tax collector?
Here’s how many people in the US claim Irish ancestry - are you one of them?
My mother’s emigrant heart: A story of immigration
This St. Patrick’s Day, take an online course in Irish sean-nós singing
Share your story! What does St. Patrick's Day mean to you?
GIVEAWAY: Win a bespoke Celtic hamper from Moon Mná
Irish people should follow St. Brigid, not just St. Patrick
Irish maids in New York were subject to a racist slur in the 19th century
Was Saint Patrick really saintly or a criminal?
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
