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.
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
Irish famine emigrant's emotional letter home to Mom and Dad in 1850
Happy birthday Katie Taylor! To celebrate we've planted her a tree in Ireland
Did you know you can stay at a Quiet Man-themed B&B in Ireland?
First color photos of Ireland taken by two French women in 1913
On this day in 1915, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was laid to rest in Dublin, igniting a revolution
Most read
- 1 Irish Genealogy website offers free access to decades of birth, marriage and death records
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 5 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 6 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 7 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 8 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
- 9 Artist Paul Henry's thoughts on the enchanting West of Ireland
History
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
Genealogy
