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 Irish boy names given to only five babies or less in 2024
WATCH: Life of a Tipperary Road Worker in rural Ireland, 1968
Behind the name: Claire, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
How WB Yeats' connection to Sligo stretches back through generations
What's your Irish County? County Sligo
What's your Irish County? County Roscommon
Famine era letters to the US document the horrors of Ireland's Great Hunger
What's your Irish County? County Monaghan
"That is hard to hear" - Aisling Bea feeling "a little bit shameful" after learning family history
Most read
- 1 Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
- 2 Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
On This Day: George Brent, the Irish rebel turned Hollywood star, was born in 1904
We need more Lilys - Celebrating the strength of a gentle Irish grandmother
Where is the oldest St. Patrick's Day celebration in the world?
The Irishman who designed the Academy’s statuette and won 11 Oscars
Facts about St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City
Genealogy