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 language thriving in Long Island City
Roots: The Extraordinary Crowleys
Book reviews: recently published books of Irish and Irish-American interest
A Trip to the Bountiful: The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
Music reviews: recently released albums from Irish and Irish-American artists
Those We Lost: recent Irish-American passings
The First Word: Chasing Miracles
The Miracle Worker: Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan
Sláinte: Irish Cowgirls - Three Award-Winning Cheesemakers
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
Are there human remains on board Titanic?
On This Day: Ireland's Easter Rising begins in 1916
Patrick Dooley died on the Titanic, he'd visited his dying father in Ireland
Plaque unveiled to mark birth place of Harry Clarke, Irish stained glass artist & illustrator
Titanic timeline: Tracing the famous ship's creation and demise
Genealogy