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.
O’Dowds to O’Connells - Irish certainly have a way with names
The “Son of Sam” Summer and the Irish cop who caught the NY serial killer
Famous baseball player finds out who Irish parents were
All about visitor’s Irish clan names in Spiddal, Connemara
National Famine Commemoration Day marked by the president today in Co. Cork
Are you of Irish descent? Connect with your ancestors’ place of origin in Ireland today
How Montserrat’s slave rebellion and St. Patrick’s Day are celebrated together
"Tough, lucky and a drinker" - Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson delighted to learn he has Irish roots
Winston Churchill was responsible by inaction for tragic Lusitania sinking
Most read
- 1 CIE Tours reveal huge Ireland sale! Save on ALL guided vacations for 2026 travel
- 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
Tea drinking in Ireland was once viewed as "reckless and uncontrollable"
How to celebrate the Summer Solstice the Irish way
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin
How Irish American US General Philip Sheridan paved the way for Juneteenth
The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland
Genealogy
