
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.

Controversy after statistic claims majority of Irish people cannot speak a foreign language
Michael Collins did not start Irish Civil War as widely believed
Why Mary Robinson is one of Ireland’s most respected figures
Why Mary Robinson is one of Ireland’s most respected figures
Secrets of Ireland's ancient passage tomb Knowth published free online
Ireland's first poet president - Douglas Hyde
Irishman Francis McHugh - A gentleman of the highway
In search of descendants to Ireland's Great Hunger bride orphans
Why Michael Collins' hat was removed from a Dublin museum
Most read
- 1 Come home to the West: Discover Ireland differently on Limerick Greenway
- 2 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 4 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 5 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 6 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 7 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 8 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 9 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
History

The Irish and Irish American signatories of the Declaration of Independence
175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
WATCH: Remarkable footage from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1940s
An Irish nun's friendship with Princess Diana
Genealogy
