
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.

RTÉ's "superb" new Great Hunger documentary makes for emotional viewing
The stories of African Irish in Mother and Baby Homes
IrishCentral launches Irish Heritage Tree, planting roots in Ireland
IrishCentral’s Book of the Month: “Old Ireland in Colour” by John Breslin and Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley
Be like Liam Neeson! Plant your family heritage tree in Ireland
To Be Irish at Christmas - New diaspora initiative launched by Irish government
Oscar Wilde’s 11 best quotes on the anniversary of his death
Interesting facts about President John F. Kennedy
Fossils found in Northern Ireland belong to dinosaurs, study confirms
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

Daniel O’Connell Commemorative Programme announced
Do you know who’s in your family’s Glasnevin Cemetery plot? I didn’t
On this day: Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan "accidentally" flies to Dublin instead of California
WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
WATCH: A colorful look at 1940 Dublin, "a city of romance and contrasts"
Genealogy
