
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.

How Oscar Wilde become the first celebrity “famous for being famous”
My Irish grandfather went from poverty to a dangerous orphanage; he emerged a great man
Exclusive survey! What Irish Americans most like and dislike about Ireland
Under pressure Trump White House releases Irish American Heritage Month proclamation
An Irishwoman was blamed for starting the Great Chicago Fire
An American journalist reports from Ireland during the Famine
How an Irish doctor survived WWII, captivity and the Atomic Bomb
Heartbreaking artwork depicting Great Hunger coffin ships now on display
I took my 80-year-old mother to Ireland to see the castles our ancestors built
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

New TG4 series 'Ó Mhuir Go Tír' explores Ireland's island transportation evolution
The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland
On This Day: Edward Bruce, the last High King of Ireland, dies in 1318
Halloween - an Irish invention, an American export
The mystery of 1916 leader and New Yorker Éamon de Valera’s birth
Genealogy
