
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.

Sixty years of Irish history captured in photographic archives - PHOTOS
Ireland’s Most Unromantic Man bought his wife a memory foam pillow and a car wash for Christmas
Titanic’s crew and passengers ignored maritime superstitions
Dubliners “Banjo” Barney McKenna dies over his morning cuppa - VIDEOS
An Irish Passover story in Tompkins Square Park
Wreck of the Titanic placed under UNESCO protection 100 years on - PHOTOS
NYC Speaker Christine Quinn speaks about her grandmother’s survival on the Titanic
New UN survey finds that Irish are among the happiest people in the world
A Mayo village recalls the Irish who perished aboard the Titanic
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
