
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.

Northern Irish family believed to be the oldest in the world
How a 104-year-old telegraph machine was recovered from the Lusitania shipwreck
A look at Ireland long ago, at the turn of the 20th century (VIDEOS)
Rare genetic mutation made Northern Ireland land of the giants
Britain questioned Ireland’s WWII neutrality when German spies landed in Dingle
Top ten last words of famous Irish leaders
Online MA in Gaelic Literature available from University College Cork
Halloween dig reveals 5,000-year-old tomb under haunted Hellfire Club
Always wanted to speak Irish? Get started here (VIDEOS)
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

On This Day: Michael Collins killed in an ambush in Co Cork
Final days of Michael Collins: ambush, assassination, and peace talks in Ireland's Civil War
"Galway Bay" - the mystery man who wrote the classic song
The makers of Michael Collins' death mask believed he was shot at close range
On This Day: A US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison
Genealogy
