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.
Famous people past and present with Irish grandfathers
The history, facts and meaning behind the Irish name Butler
Remembering a Sligo man killed in the World Trade Center
Royal roots unearthed: Queen Elizabeth’s lineage traces back to Brian Boru
Irish names among most popular in the United States over last 100 years
What were the most popular Irish boy’s baby names in Ireland in 1911?
What's the most Irish town in America?
Honoring the Irish poet and nationalist who died a British soldier on the Western Front
A guide to Irish names that are commonly mispronounced
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
- 3 50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 5 Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
- 6 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 7 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 8 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
- 9 Delicious Irish recipes for Easter Sunday
History
Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
Ireland's 'American Presidents Trail' confirmed as part of America250 programme
110th anniversary of Ireland's Easter Rising to be marked in Dublin on Sunday
Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy