
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.

Tracing my Irish roots led me to the big family I always dreamed of
How the Jive took over Irish rural culture with thanks to the iconic Big Tom
Seven Irish heroes who never came home from the Korean War
Think all Irish people should look like Ed Sheeran? Meet the people proving you wrong
Galway to honor Virginia slave who died in Ireland, America's first sports star
How to get started tracing your Irish roots – and complete the journey in Ireland
Galway family's extraordinary tribute to the brother they lost in the Vietnam War
100 years ago today, ship that rescued Titanic survivors was sunk by a German Torpedo
Could Meghan Markle have cousins in Belfast?
Most read
- 1 How The Ancient Order of Hibernians gives back to our communities
- 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

How The Ancient Order of Hibernians gives back to our communities
40 children died in the Easter Rising, some with the taste of chocolate in their mouths
Belfast's Titanic shipyard built more than just ships
WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
Genealogy
