
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.

Ireland and America – a two billion year relationship
Book Review: 'Finding Your Irish Ancestors in New York City' by Joe Buggy
Guinness unveils two new beers, inspired by diary entries from 1796 and 1801
Garbage man Ed Shevlin wins a Fulbright for Irish scholarship
A Strange Occurrence on Ireland’s Eye
The last surviving son of the 1916 Easter Rising turns 102 today (VIDEO)
America’s most Irish metro areas (PHOTOS)
Irish American organization commissions sculpture of boxing legend Johnny Kilbane
Brendan O’Carroll’s dramatic family history revealed on Who Do You Think You Are?
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
