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.
Most read
- 1 WATCH: Conan O’Brien’s DNA test says he’s 100% Irish, stuns his doctor
- 2 Meet the Brennan clan, the Kilkenny name with a Viking king in its bloodline
- 3 Murphy leads Ireland's ten most common surnames and the meanings behind them
- 4 Meet the O'Haras, the Sligo clan that gave us cardinals, novelists and screen legends
- 5 Dingle still tops Ireland's must-visit list even without Fungie the dolphin
- 6 The 1922 fire destroyed millions of Irish records but these five sets survived
- 7 Orange Order march up in the air following protests
- 8 Remembering James Fitzmaurice, the Dubliner who first flew the Atlantic east to west
- 9 Mackenzie Michalski: Loved ones remember American nurse murdered by Irish man
History
Chalice from Joseph Plunkett and Grace Gifford's Kilmainham wedding goes on public display
Murphy leads Ireland's ten most common surnames and the meanings behind them
A new free site maps all 151,307 records in Ireland's national monuments inventory
Remembering James Fitzmaurice, the Dubliner who first flew the Atlantic east to west
WATCH: 1960s short film follows adventures of group of boys in Ireland
Genealogy
