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: An IRA bomb kills five people in Brighton in 1984
Beloved actress Angela Lansbury, who was an Irish citizen, has died
Irish healing sweathouse discovered in Famine-era Australia archaelogical dig
Carrying on the tradition of lighting gas streetlamps in the Phoenix Park
Irish ancestry unearthed - every census since 1926 online
The O'Neills - Everything you need to know about the Irish family name
Where does the phrase “the luck of the Irish” come from?
Ten signs you have Irish ancestors
The surprising origins of the Irish - from Russia to the Middle East
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone was sentenced to death in 1798
On This Day: Easter Rising hero Padraig Pearse born in 1879
A year of reckoning - Irish conscription during World War I
English Spy, Irish Eye: Capt John Baxter's map of Elizabethan espionage in Ireland
The Irishman who courted Hitler: Seán Russell’s deadly gamble for freedom
Genealogy
