
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.

Irish police officers want to honor Black and Tans killed by the IRA
Irish Easter Rising paintings removed by leading golf club
Photo of Irish Titanic victims, widow and her children, to sell at auction
Celebrating Thanksgiving Irish American-style
Spanish Inquisition records show Irishman was the basis for the character Zorro
Bruce Springsteen to play Dublin, research his Irish roots
An Irish slang translator - cracking the code of what the Irish are on about
No more kisses allowed on Oscar Wilde’s Paris grave – restored grave revealed
The end of my Irish dance hiatus - coming out of retirement for Oireachtas 2011
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

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
On This Day: Six people killed during Loughinisland Massacre in Co Down
Genealogy
