
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.

How an ex-Congressman helped end the centuries of war in Ireland
The 485 Irish civilians killed in the 1916 Easter Rising shoot outs
The United Irishman historic newspaper goes online
Barack Obama officially launches Irish American Heritage Month
These online parish records will forever change how we find our Irish ancestors
Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
How Ireland today compares to Ireland in 1916
Four unexpected places to find your Irish ancestors (and their little dog too!)
Tragic Glasnevin historian’s grave now has more visitors than Michael Collins
Most read
- 1 Come home to the West: Discover Ireland differently on Limerick Greenway
- 2 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 4 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 5 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 6 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 7 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 8 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 9 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
History

175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
WATCH: Remarkable footage from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1940s
An Irish nun's friendship with Princess Diana
On This Day: Irish American hero Thomas Francis Meagher died in 1867
Genealogy
