
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.

Truth revealed about Irish relic of cross on which Jesus was crucified (VIDEO)
How Irish surnames came to be - what’s the story behind yours?
Raise a pint of Guinness to St. James on his feast day
Doctors, lawyers, teachers also died in Famine workhouses
The Irish goodbye becomes famous
Famous explorer to unveil plaque honoring historic 1976 re-enactment of St. Brendan's voyage
Churchill's closest confidant was a secretive self-hating Irish immigrant
New York City's own Brexit - Evacuation Day celebrations of 1783
Ireland should have a national day of commemoration for the Great Hunger
Most read
- 1 LAST CHANCE to WIN a trip to Ireland! Don't miss your chance to share your love letter
- 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: Oscar Wilde's trial for "gross indecency" begins in London
The 1916 Easter Rising - How Irish America and Ireland saw it very differently
On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
The 1916 Easter Rising: A guide to the key figures, facts, and moments
Defending Trinity College during the 1916 Easter Rising
Genealogy
