
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 burial rituals - skeletons reveal fear of the undead
Jackie Kennedy disliked the Irish and cooking Irish stew
Equality for Kerry ladies as they join Kerryman's Association after 120 years
New York City’s 30th Great Irish Fair – fun, craic and music
In Focus: Mel Hamill - Irish comedian and filmmaker - VIDEO
Pierce Brosnan talks “I Don’t Know How She Does It” in New York City - VIDEO
One woman play about Irish dance brings history, love and laughter to NYC stage - VIDEO
IrishCentral's summer vacation photo competition winner announced
How to apply for your Certificate of Irish Heritage - POLL
Most read
- 1 CIE Tours reveal huge Ireland sale! Save on ALL guided vacations for 2026 travel
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History

Tea drinking in Ireland was once viewed as "reckless and uncontrollable"
How to celebrate the Summer Solstice the Irish way
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin
How Irish American US General Philip Sheridan paved the way for Juneteenth
The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland
Genealogy
