
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.

An Irish blessing for those in the path of Hurricane Ophelia
Did the Irish bomb the 1939 New York World Fair?
The Irish Potato Famine, the Great Hunger, genocide - what should we call it?
Ghosts are regulars at America’s most haunted Irish pub
First major Irish exhibition on Oscar Wilde launched at Trinity College
Did the Irish Famine trigger mental illness in the Irish?
The famous Chicago May, Irish Queen of crooks
Ireland’s Loch Ness monster resurfaced after 147 years
An inconvenient truth: Queen Victoria was welcomed by the Irish during the Famine
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 historic Donegal lodge that paved the way for Irish seaside resorts
WATCH: Short film reveals the terrible history of 'No Irish Need Apply'
Maureen O'Hara's "sex scandal" that led to a libel case
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians identity is rooted in history
On This Day: Michael Collins killed in an ambush in Co Cork
Genealogy
