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.
Forgotten no more - The tens of thousands of Irish who fought in the US Civil War
DNA kit deal will reveal the mysteries of your Irish family history
Why the Irish swear so much
Remarkable tombstone of Irish immigrant found under San Francisco home
Did John Kennedy Jr and Princess Diana have a secret meeting in NYC?
The Bloody Monday riots of 1855 were the most horrific attack on Irish Catholic immigrants
Five Irish American serial killers and evil doers - the worst Irish on earth
Irish housekeeper of the Confederate White House
The story behind teenage Bill Clinton and JFK’s handshake
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
