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.
Here are the baby girl names that are trending in Ireland in 2025
The rise of Irish Paganism
On This Day: Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, was born in 1874
Five Irish love stories that changed history
Beautiful Irish language terms of endearment for your sweetheart
This World Radio Day, celebrating inventor Guglielmo Marconi’s Irish connection
The most popular girl and boy baby names in Ireland in 1985
Our favorite Irish love sayings for Valentine’s Day
On This Day: Irish political leader Garret Fitzgerald was born in 1926
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Countess Constance Markievicz was born in 1868
Most read
- 1 CIE Tours' Ireland sale is nearly here - here's how not to miss out!
- 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 an Irish book tour transformed Frederick Douglass
The romance of Ireland's dance halls in the 1950s and 1960s
On This Day: Irish Famine writer William Carleton is born
WATCH: Dublin schoolgirl's hilarious retelling of a classic Bible story 60 years ago
Presidents' Day: A look at the US presidents with Irish roots
Genealogy
