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.
Billy the Kid The Endless Ride
The Harbor Boys
Thomas Kinsellas Collected Poems
The Wearing of the Green A History of St Patricks Day
Mysteries of the Middle Ages The Rise of Feminism Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
Juniper Street
Irish Immigrants of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
Small Beauties The Journey of Darcy Heart OHara
John L Sullivan The Career of the First Gloved Heavyweight Champion
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
Real stories of the women buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin
Why real Irish American history is not taught in schools
Cork wealthy dined on “turtle soup and champagne” during Ireland’s Great Hunger
From the Famine to Five Points - history of Irish pubs in the USA
The deadly Irish American serial killer nurse Jolly Jane
Genealogy