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.
Did the Celts build "America’s Stonehenge" 4,000 years ago?
Michael Collins was a great lover as well as a fearsome fighter
Italian boxers took Irish names to deter discrimination
Too few Americans visit our war dead: Remembering US involvement in WWI
Adopted siblings travel to Ireland to sadly discover their mothers have passed away
How speaking Irish saved my life on the run from United Arab Emirates police
Who are the main Irish celebrities supporting the Presidential candidates?
Northern Irish family believed to be the oldest in the world
How a 104-year-old telegraph machine was recovered from the Lusitania shipwreck
Most read
- 1 Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
- 2 Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
Real stories of the women buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin
Why real Irish American history is not taught in schools
Cork wealthy dined on “turtle soup and champagne” during Ireland’s Great Hunger
From the Famine to Five Points - history of Irish pubs in the USA
The deadly Irish American serial killer nurse Jolly Jane
Genealogy
