
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.

On This Day: 99 Great Hunger refugees died off the coast of Massachusetts in 1849
Black Irish Identities: The complex relationship between Irish and African Americans
Police investigate robbery at pub in Ireland founded by Joe Biden's ancestors
Writing the songs of our ancestors - A reflexive exploration of identity
Experience Irish music like never before at the Masters Of Tradition Festival
LISTEN: Cillian Murphy narrates podcast on survivors of Tuam Mother and Baby Homes
Michael Collins' walking stick sells for astonishing £52,000 at auction
Plan a heritage tour of your ancestors' hometown with Legacy Tree Genealogists
Church of Ireland parish registers are a genealogy goldmine
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

Battle of the Boyne: Catholic troops were "dead drunk," firsthand account reveals
WATCH: This Aer Lingus advert from the 1960s will have you feeling nostalgic
Heartbreaking images from Northern Ireland remind us why we can never return to the Troubles
How Sybil Connolly led the Irish invasion into the fashion world
The incredible story of the first American ship to bring Famine relief to Ireland
Genealogy
