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.
2012 North American Irish Dancing Champions
Color, carnival and crowd mingles with smells of food and farmyard at the Mullagh Fair Day - slideshow
Top ten strangest Irish gifts you could possible buy online
The 2013 naked Irish Farmers Calendar slideshow
Spectacular photography of Ireland by Damien Stenson - slideshow
The final stretch of John F Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1960 - photo slideshow
Historic photos of women and children protesting against United States failure to support Irish Independence in 1920 - slideshow
Irish Day of Action - to aid communities affected by Hurricane Sandy in Breezy Point and the Rockaways – slideshow
Photos of Irish child laborers in 1900s served as a document for social change in the US - 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