
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.

The last letter written on board the doomed Titanic
On This Day: Handel's "Messiah" premiered in Fishamble Street, Dublin
On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
Sonar images show Titanic in its ocean grave
Be part of history! Ireland of the Welcomes celebrates its 70th anniversary
Winston Churchill's surprising views on a United Ireland
A look at the culinary spectacle on board the Titanic
In Shakespeare’s time, Irish poetry had the power to kill rats
An American Gaeilgeoir in Dublin on the Irish language, language rights, and identity
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: In 1725 Dublin children received the first smallpox vaccination
On This Day: The Dublin Lockout begins in 1913
The historic Donegal lodge that paved the way for Irish seaside resorts
WATCH: Short film reveals the terrible history of 'No Irish Need Apply'
Maureen O'Hara's "sex scandal" that led to a libel case
Genealogy
