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.
The upheaval in early May, 100 years ago, during the Irish War of Independence
Gun running from across the Irish Sea during the Irish War of Independence
Remembering the 4,000 Irish who died at Gallipoli this Anzac Day
Irish Americans must respond to ethnic question in 2020 US Census
22,000 Irish suffer from undiagnosed Celtic blood disease
Great Famine Voices Roadshow goes online amid COVID-19 crisis
Ireland’s greatest jewel heist - an inside job at Dublin Castle?
Ireland’s bubonic plague scare in 1900
"Buried silently and sadly" - The Irish Famine dead of 1847
Most read
- 1 Discover where nature meets heritage with CIE Tours' NEW Ireland Walking & Hiking tours
- 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
On This Day: JFK arrives in Ireland for historic visit in 1963
WIN a private walking tour of Dublin's Georgian architecture with lunch at the Merrion Hotel
On This Day: President Kennedy delivers his iconic Berlin Wall speech in Germany
WATCH: Hozier delivers Irish history lesson during concert in Boston's Fenway Park
The siege of the Four Courts: The beginning of the Irish Civil War
Genealogy
