
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.

Tracing your Irish ancestors: A three-step guide
Inspiring and funny quotes on what it means to be Irish
The most haunted spots in Ireland to visit this Halloween
Is this Witch’s Yew Ireland’s most haunted tree?
On This Day: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, is born in 1903
Broadcaster and writer Manchán Magan remembered as ‘absolute gentleman’ and ‘dreamer’
Expert says this gender neutral Irish baby name will be popular in 2026
On This Day: Irish tenor Frank Patterson born in County Tipperary
Remembering Flann O’Brien on his birthday: the wit behind the words
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History

These are some of the most haunted places in Ireland to visit
WATCH: A breathtaking look at Aran Island inhabitants nearly 100 years ago
Irish architect of a US icon: James Hoban’s design legacy in Washington's White House
4,000 women from workhouses in Ireland became Australian pioneers
Haunting Irish mugshots from 1850s home in NYC Library
Genealogy
