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.
Facts about the Irish in America for the 4th of July
This Irish name featured in “Westworld” is becoming super popular in America
Celebrating Beyoncé's Irish roots on her birthday
Make your campfire treats Irish this Toasted Marshmallow Day
Irish immigrants lives laid out at New York Tenement Museum
The attempted assassination by an Irishman of a British prince in Australia
Learning from the past - the forgotten graves of County Kerry
Seven hard-won lessons from searching for my Irish ancestors
The Battle of Waterloo and the Irish
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Titanic struck an iceberg despite receiving warnings
- 2 Try this modern twist on the traditional Irish bread pudding recipe
- 3 Ten little known facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 Oh, Lisdoonvarna... is a town unlike any other in Ireland
- 5 Places in Ireland that can change your life
- 6 The men onboard the Titanic who gave up their lives to save women and children
- 7 Donald Trump blasts Pope Leo claiming "he likes crime"
- 8 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
- 9 The assassination of Abraham Lincoln and how two Irishmen might have prevented it
History
On This Day: Titanic struck an iceberg despite receiving warnings
How the Irish impacted Abraham Lincoln, shot down 161 years ago this day
The men onboard the Titanic who gave up their lives to save women and children
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln and how two Irishmen might have prevented it
On This Day: Handel's "Messiah" premiered in Fishamble Street, Dublin
Genealogy