
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.

These hilarious gravestone epitaphs prove Irish dark wit is unmatched
Seeing Ireland through my father's vintage Kodachrome images
Medieval manuscript reveals links between Irish education and Muslim world
An Irish woman was the last witch hanged in Boston
The best (or worst?) Irish jokes for a hearty chuckle this St. Patrick's Day
How did Barbary apes wind up in Ireland 2,300 years ago?
New book on losing and finding yourself again in the wilds of Donegal
20 of the best jokes from Ireland's funniest man Frank Carson
IrishCentral’s top ten Irish dance jokes - from makeup to numerical difficulties
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

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
On This Day: Six people killed during Loughinisland Massacre in Co Down
Genealogy
