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.
Medieval Irish merchants traded in slaves in Tunisia and Iceland
How Original Sin, according to Catholic Church, tore my family apart
Landmark new research into Great Hunger dead reveals victims' tragic tales
From a cramped Morris Minor in Longford to the cold winters in Tasmania
Obama discovers his Scots-Irish roots to tackle Trump
A look at books: From Irish food to Irishmen who fought with the British in 1916
Why Ronald Reagan’s attempted assassin should never be released
Menu from Titanic’s sumptuous last lunch auctions for $88,000
Truth revealed about Irish relic of cross on which Jesus was crucified (VIDEO)
Most read
- 1 Discover where nature meets heritage with CIE Tours' NEW Ireland Walking & Hiking tours
- 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
WATCH: Hozier delivers Irish history lesson during concert in Boston's Fenway Park
The siege of the Four Courts: The beginning of the Irish Civil War
On this day: 1959, Éamon de Valera becomes President of Ireland
The Dublin doctor who fought to end slavery and Irish racism in the US
WATCH: Summer on the sunny "Irish Riviera" nearly 90 years ago
Genealogy
