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.
Famous Irish family trees: Daniel Day-Lewis
Napoleon’s Irish Legion in the post-1798 Rebellion years
5 things you didn’t know about your Offaly ancestors
Irish famine archive on migration to Canada launched online
Orange Order buys Battle of the Boyne gun for $31,000
Maeve Brennan: New York's 'Long-Winded Lady' by way of Dublin
Finally the true figure of how many fought in 1916
Once the most powerful fashion arbiter in America: Carmel Snow
Over 300,000 new historical Irish newspaper articles go online
Most read
- 1 Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
- 2 Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
Arbour Hill, Dublin’s forgotten memorial to the men of 1916
WATCH: Amazing colorized footage of Titanic in Belfast
Faces of the Titanic: Irishman Jeremiah Burke sent a message in a bottle before his death
WATCH: 1989 RTÉ report highlights blight of emigration on Mayo town
Was the coward of the Titanic really a hero? The book "Understanding J. Bruce Ismay" says yes
Genealogy
