
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.

Ireland will finally officially commemorate the famine, thanks to a Dublin taxi driver
The magic of the tombs at Newgrange on this day the winter solstice
Store once visited by Michael Collins to close its doors
How one little girl inspired a New York journalist to restore faith in Santa
Merry Christmas! DNA testing could prove Santa Claus is buried in Kilkenny
Young Irish American leaders discovering Ancient Order of Hibernians
“Saoirse” baby name rising in popularity for Americans because of guess who?
Exclusive video of John F Kennedy a week before death on new HBO show
LISTEN: The Irish people and potatoes - was Ireland overpopulated in 1845?
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
