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.
Flying Irish Feis - September 2011 slideshow
Top ten of the greatest Irish American writers
Top ten Irish holy days and holidays explained - slideshow
Kevin Abosch's 'Faces of Ireland'
Gaelic Girl Mollie - 'Get Born' the beauty of Inis Oírr, the Aran Islands, Galway slideshow
Top ten archaeological finds in Ireland
'I love Ireland because...' - a slideshow of some of Ireland's top spots
Top ten haunted hostelries in Ireland
Top ten ideas for Irish Halloween costumes - slideshow
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
Original historic US documents to go on display in Belfast this year
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
"Most dangerous woman in America" - Mother Jones remembered for a life of labour and defiance
Titanic hero Irishman Thomas Andrews epitomized bravery as ship went down
DNA test led a Chicago woman to find family ties to Mrs. O’Leary of the Great Fire fame
Genealogy