
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.

How I learned to love my hard-to-pronounce Irish name
This Irish name is no longer popular in the United States
This map shows where all the O’Neill clan live
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Moloney clan
Tracing your Irish ancestry - Riordan Clan
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Sweeney clan
The top Irish baby names according to our passports
Reconnect with Roscommon on Global Rossie Day
This Irish name is the most popular name for baby boys in New York
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

The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
Who killed Michael Collins? Questions still linger
The incredible life Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s 16th century pirate queen
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians identity is rooted in history
On This Day: Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol received its first prisoners in 1796
Genealogy
