
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.

Ellis Island building to become a museum honoring immigrants
A headless horseman may well win this year’s Kentucky Derby
Titanic launch ticket stub to fetch over $5,000 at Dublin auction
Emigrant children asked to take part in Irish Times art exhibition
TV show ‘Who do you think you are?’ prompts spike in genealogy research in Ireland
‘Gaelic Girls’ introduce the ‘Dublin Divas’ - the lush, the whore and the bore
Did President John F Kennedy steal his inauguration speech? - VIDEO
Why the wonderful Cliffs of Moher needs YOUR help right away
Top ten words Irish women say to their men - and what they’re really saying
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
