
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.

Dream trip to Ireland - “tread softly” through Yeats country (PHOTOS)
Jackie Kennedy’s secret letters to Dublin priest are finally uncovered
Celebrating music and tradition along the Wild Atlantic Way
Racist ice cream truck jingle based on Scots-Irish immigrant tune (VIDEO)
The O’Dowds have taken over!
Tracing your Irish family history: Newspapers
Memorial to youngest Allied WWI soldier to die unveiled in Waterford
The origin of the Irish county.
Mass grave of up to 800 dead babies exposed in County Galway
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
