
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.

10,000 register for Trinity College Dublin’s first online Irish History course
Franco-Irish army drove the British out of Castlebar, 216 years ago today
Andy Warhol and the most notorious Irish gangsters in New York
Kelsey Grammer catches Oregon fever!
Auld Lammas Fair, a unique Irish festival in Northern Ireland
The day the world changed: Bruce Morrison on the 1994 IRA ceasefire
Celebrated Irish authors Don Mullan and Mary Kelly to lecture at Quinnipiac University
My great-grandfather struck a police officer with a meat cleaver: fact or fiction?
Gerry Adams says Irish America was critical to IRA 1994 ceasefire
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

On This Day: A million Irish turned out for Mass at the 1932 Eucharistic Congress
WATCH: This Aer Lingus advert from the 1960s will have you feeling nostalgic
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
Genealogy
