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.
Bones of 5,000-year-old Stone Age child and adult found in Irish cave
How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
New online project will map out every ancient hill fort in Ireland
Famed Irish general Thomas Francis Meagher finally gets his marker in Brooklyn
Questions I wish people would stop asking me about being Irish
President of Ireland thanks Oklahoma tribe for their generosity during the Great Famine
Three-day festival in Montana pays tribute to great Irish General Thomas Meagher
Victim of only cult to ever have its roots in Ireland speaks out
What did a Dublin man living 500 years ago really look like? Now we know.
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
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
How Irish American US General Philip Sheridan paved the way for Juneteenth
The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland
Genealogy
