
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.

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
My great-uncle's Easter Rising fight at the South Dublin Union
How the Catholic church misjudged the Easter Rising
A look inside Co Donegal's Molloy & Sons tweed company
An Irish blessing of light and hope
How did Hollywood get its name? It all started in Ireland
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

An immigrant family's first appearance on the US census
Study on Great Irish Famine's impact on human height yields 'surprising' results
On This Day: Irish poet, writer and nationalist John Boyle O’Reilly died
The best quotes from Irish Hollywood legend Maureen O'Hara
Irish language’s centuries-old roots explored in new DNA study
Genealogy
