
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.

Mrs. O’Leary’s cow did not start the Great Chicago Fire 150 years ago
The Irish “Maypole Family” and reminiscing on my Uncle Packie Killeen
Call for new autopsy on Michael Collins as documentary makes new claims
Celebrating St. Finbarr's Day and the lone Gougane Barra
Kickoff your Fall with a fun family day of Irish culture on the Hudson
Granny, Countess Markievicz, and Me
The 40th annual Great Irish Fair of New York, back this weekend to Coney Island
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The O'Sullivan Clan
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Duffy Clan
Most read
- 1 How The Ancient Order of Hibernians gives back to our communities
- 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

How The Ancient Order of Hibernians gives back to our communities
40 children died in the Easter Rising, some with the taste of chocolate in their mouths
Belfast's Titanic shipyard built more than just ships
WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
Genealogy
