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.
5-time Grammy winner Billie Eilish's Irish roots
How Michael Collins wrote the book for revolutionaries
Leeds Irish Centre launches its 50th anniversary year celebrations
Why you have to visit Glasnevin - the resting place of Ireland's heroes and heroines
Irish baby names to lose appeal in US in 2020s
Strange Irish curses to hex your enemy
One in five Black and Tans were Irish - women often abused by vicious force
The Irish Bucket List: Things to do in Ireland before you die
Seeking the Primrose girls, 156 Irish immigrants to Canada from small Galway town
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
WATCH: Here’s what the fall fashion was like in 1962 Dublin
What is Ogham? A look at the ancient Irish alphabet
The "Bad Bridgets" - forgotten Famine era single pregnant women who fled to America
4,000-year-old gold necklace recovered from dumpster
The men onboard the Titanic who gave up their lives to save women and children
Genealogy