
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.

1940 United States census to go online a boost for Irish roots- VIDEO
Mommy Diaries: And now we are four - race is on to move home to Ireland
Sober St. Patrick’s Day in New York a sellout success - VIDEO
Modern day St. Patrick - honoring Father Theodore Hesburgh at Notre Dame - VIDEO
A look at books - top Irish new releases in fiction and history
In Focus: Madeleine Ni Ghallchobhair - Fullbright Scholar teaching Irish in New York
Top ten winners and losers from St. Patrick's Day season 2012
Irish American firefighter saves woman’s life before his work day begins - VIDEO
Outrage as Michael Collins’ images used to sell bread in TV ad - VIDEO & POLL
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History

The true history of “It's a Long Way to Tipperary”
LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
The man who witnessed Michael Collins' death in 1922
Remembering Daniel O’Connell's final tragic plea to save Ireland from Famine on his anniversary
The tales behind the bawdy Dublin song "Take me up to Monto"
Genealogy
