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.
Irish DNA goes back to Vikings as well as Niall of the Nine Hostages
Competition: Win a hotel stay and weekend pass to Pittsburgh Irish Festival 2021
How the Molly Maguires fought America’s first labor war
Unimaginable horrors - An Irish journalist's eyewitness account of 9/11
Getting back to normality - and the craic - at Milwaukee Irish Fest
New Jersey AOH to honor members who perished on 9/11
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum - A solution must be found quickly
Did the Vikings bring leprosy to Ireland?
Celebrating halfway to St. Patrick's Day with the best parades in North America
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
On This Day: Harry Clarke, stained glass artist, is born in Dublin
The intersection of Saint Patrick and paganism in Ireland
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
Genealogy