
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 search of descendants to Ireland's Great Hunger bride orphans
Why Michael Collins' hat was removed from a Dublin museum
Facebook series captures the history of Charlestown, Boston's Irish neighborhood
Michael Collins named as Britain’s second greatest foe, after George Washington
Young priest murdered by the Black and Tans remembered
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Feeney clan
On This Day: The Young Ireland rebellion against the British comes to a quick end
Tracing your ancestry - the Fahy clan
Men (and women) of Aran: Irish Embassy posts series of celebrities in Aran sweaters
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

The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
Who killed Michael Collins? Questions still linger
The incredible life Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s 16th century pirate queen
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians identity is rooted in history
On This Day: Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol received its first prisoners in 1796
Genealogy
