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.
WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
On This Day: 80 years ago Johnny McCormack, Ireland’s beloved tenor passed away
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
On This Day: W.B. Yeats was born in 1865 in Dublin
When 30,000 attended a Fenian Irish picnic in New York City in 1865
The Irish duo who murdered 16 people and sold the cadavers
Reinventing a classic - Irish coffee toffee recipe
How do you pronounce Liam? American nurse shocked to learn one unique way
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
