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.
What's your Irish County? County Down
GIVEAWAY: Only a few days left to win this fabulous Celtic hamper from Moon Mná
5 Things you didn’t know about your Donegal ancestors
What's your Irish County? County Cork
Ancestors in Cork? New online records lets you find their graves
What's your Irish County? County Clare
Is your family from Cavan? Earliest Irish census records revealed online
On This Day: Irish American crooner Bing Crosby is born
On This Day: Ernest Ball, composer of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," was born
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
