
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: The Titanic sinks but passengers remained calm
Most recent US Census Irish figures hold major surprises
"We're Irish!" Sharon Stone speaks warmly of her Irish roots
National Dolphin Day: Remembering Fungie the Dolphin, my hometown treasure
How the Irish impacted Abraham Lincoln, shot down 156 years ago this day
Fascinating pensions records pre-Easter Rising and beyond reveals a wealth of Irish history
Child killed in 1916 Easter Rising honored with headstone over a century later
WWII "Éire" sign to be visible to passengers flying into Dublin Airport
Locals fight for “human rights” of Boyne River near Newgrange under threat of pollution
Most read
- 1 WIN a private walking tour of Dublin's Georgian architecture with lunch at the Merrion Hotel
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History

WATCH: Ireland's "supertrain" was the "smooth, swift, and safe" way to travel in 1973
Irish research raises doubts that incestuous ‘god-kings’ ruled during Neolithic Ireland
The history of Irish coffee and how to make it (with a dash of Tullamore Dew!)
On This Day: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian leader, dies in the U.S.
On This Day: The siege of the Four Courts, the beginning of the Irish Civil War
Genealogy
