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.
The best things about growing up in County Kerry
US detective tracks down ancestral Belfast home from photo
The selfless private and professional life of a New Jersey firefighter
Bradley Cooper could win Oscar for Irish American NYPD terrorist hunt
Selfies, chocolate and complaining; what the internet is giving up for lent
Digging Seamus Heaney in my Brooklyn classroom and around the world
How British WWII hero Alan Turing saved our world
Names and lives lived are alive in memory 13 years after 9/11
The Brehon laws show complex sophisticated society
Most read
- 1 On This Day: John F Kennedy, the first Irish American Catholic US President, was born in 1917
- 2 On This Day: Msgr. Edward Flanagan, the Irish founder of Boys Town, passed away
- 3 Ireland poised to break its May heat record for the third time this week
- 4 Ukrainians told to pay their own way to stay in Ireland
- 5 Kyran Durnin investigation: Woman released without charge
- 6 American man charged with murdering Kenmare farmer sent forth for trial
- 7 Ireland commits to responsible space exploration by signing on to Artemis Accords
- 8 Where to experience authentic pub culture in 2026?
- 9 Tourism Northern Ireland encouraged by 9% surge
History
Remember our fighting Irish American warriors this Memorial Day
Gráinne Ní Mháille: The kind of power England could not contain
Five facts you didn’t know about Arthur Guinness
A new perspective on my Irish roots, thanks to the Irish Family History Centre at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
Genealogy
