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.
De Valera escaped English prison with a key in a cake 100 years ago today
Ireland's Great Hunger - what really happened to the food in Ireland
On This Day: Bloody Sunday erupts in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1972
Remarkable tales of American travelers unexpectedly finding their families on a tour of Ireland
On this day: Meghan Markle’s ancestors married in south Dublin
Could Montreal finally be getting a commemorative park for the 6,000 Irish who died there?
100 years ago today, the Irish War of Independence began
The Irish parliament first met on this day 100 years ago: How did it happen and what did it mean?
How four Irish rebels escaped from a Welsh prison on the day the Irish parliament was found
Most read
- 1 CIE Tours reveal huge Ireland sale! Save on ALL guided vacations for 2026 travel
- 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: A million Irish turned out for Mass at the 1932 Eucharistic Congress
WATCH: This Aer Lingus advert from the 1960s will have you feeling nostalgic
Tea drinking in Ireland was once viewed as "reckless and uncontrollable"
How to celebrate the Summer Solstice the Irish way
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin
Genealogy
