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.
The true(ish) history of how the English invaded Ireland
Available online for the first time - Dublin workhouse records 1840-1919
Remembering Samuel Beckett on his anniversary
Rebel Wilson on her Irish convict ancestors
Five things you didn’t know about your Armagh ancestors
Did your Irish ancestor receive a military pension?
The top Irish engagement rings (PHOTOS)
5,000-year-old Newgrange to be X-rayed to determine origin
The Flying Boats of Foynes – an era of very different air travel
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
Family historians urged to check out 1911 census
Ireland's historical transport records now available online
On This Day: Ellis Island closed its doors in 1954 after admitting millions of immigrants
Why 1969 was the craziest year in Irish American history
Martinmas in Ireland and its geese, blood rites and old customs
Genealogy
