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.
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
Did you know Guinness trademarked the harp symbol long before the Irish Government did?
Rare photo shows mass burial for Titanic victims
WATCH: Amazing colorized footage of Titanic in Belfast
Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
New documentary debunking Titanic myths says that Captain Smith wasn't reckless
A guide to identifying the Celtic regions
Vital 25th Amendment, the work of an Irish emigrant’s son
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 3 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
- 5 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 6 Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
- 7 Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
- 8 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 9 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
History
Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
Irish who lost their lives on the Titanic remembered
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy