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.
LISTEN: The most touching Irish ballads
The Irish suffragette who followed Churchill around ringing a bell
Read Jackie Kennedy’s letter to the President of Ireland written after JFK’s assassination
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
This is the oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor
Win a copy of "Goddesses of Ireland” plus online Celtic course from Moon Mná
The Irish roots of Kate Bush
Was it genocide? What the British ruling class really said about the Irish Famine
Ireland’s historic Birth Information and Tracing Act signed into law
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Ernest Ball, composer of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," was born
- 2 New York Irish community mourns the passing of activist Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy
- 3 Tuam excavation: Remains of more than 20 coffined infants recovered
- 4 Psychiatric evaluation ordered for man charged after serious assault in Co Waterford church
- 5 "The whole thing was completely out of control" - Passenger describes Dublin to Ibiza flight hell
- 6 Derry designer announces major Dior fashion show in Dublin
- 7 Odds reveal three favourites for 2026 Rose of Tralee
- 8 Have you got one? Rare Irish coin now worth a staggering €15,000
- 9 Billionaire Peter Thiel's group takes legal action over axed Powerscourt conference
History
On This Day: Ernest Ball, composer of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," was born
“We choose to go to the moon” - Recalling JFK’s speech on anniversary of the moon landing
On This Day: IRA bombs in London kill 11 people, seven horses in 1982
On This Day: Muhammad Ali fights Al "Blue" Lewis at Dublin's Croke Park
Eliza O'Conor Sloane: Uncovering hidden women's history
Genealogy
