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.
Struggle for Irish Independence, the Howth gun-running incident
An astronaut’s guide to Ireland with Commander Chris Hadfield
Ten ways to cure Irish homesickness
Speak like a proper Irishman with these “Culchie” definitions
500 Vikings descend on Dublin for the Battle of Clontarf 1,000th anniversary fest
Details of poison gas attack on Irish soldiers in World War I emerge
4,500 year-old path discovered near Galway Bay used by Celts
Traveling 503 islands off the coast of Ireland
Looking back at your family’s past
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- 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
