
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.

On This Day: 1916 Easter Rising leader Éamonn Ceanntn was executed
The history of your Irish surname, what you should know
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The O'Connor Clan
The magic of Ireland’s thatched cottages
Green and growing: Cork farmer shares update on Irish Heritage Tree forest
Jackie Kennedy almost married a successful Irish lawyer
Irish Vikings had brown hair, not blond, study finds
Surname study uncovered roots of Irish surnames
Expert names the top 25 Celtic baby names
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

WATCH: Irish dance of yesteryear, amazing historic footage
The Irish and Irish American signatories of the Declaration of Independence
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
Genealogy
