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.
What's your Irish County? County Cork
Ancestors in Cork? New online records lets you find their graves
What's your Irish County? County Clare
Is your family from Cavan? Earliest Irish census records revealed online
On This Day: Irish American crooner Bing Crosby is born
On This Day: US composer of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling", Ernest Ball, was born
Newly released Classic Irish Postcard Collection gives a wonderful look into Ireland's past
What you should know about The Orchard County, County Armagh
County Armagh "road-bowling" is a quintessential summer tradition
Most read
- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 Ways you know you grew up in the Irish countryside
- 3 Maud Gonne is more than Yeats' muse - She's the goddess
- 4 Summer of strikes: Every European walkout that could wreck your holiday flights this summer
- 5 This Irish brown bread ice cream recipe is unexpectedly good
- 6 Tis the (strawberry) season! Tasty summer recipes to try from Bord Bia
- 7 Irish country green spring soup recipe
- 8 WATCH: Here’s what Bloomsday looked like 62 years ago in Dublin
- 9 Was the real King Arthur Irish?
History