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.
A bit of background on Irish newspapers
Irish family history: what to use instead of census records
A famine walk in Cork remembers a dreadful time
Composer of first Irish opera was among Lusitania victims
Last Irish solider to be pardoned for fighting Nazis in WWII dies
The famous Fitzgerald clan celebrate 800 years
Your Irish ancestors in Britain
1,000 years of Irish medieval history in one day (VIDEO)
Irish woman murdered at Duffy’s Cut in 1832 begins journey home
Most read
- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 Christy Brown and the remarkable life behind "My Left Foot"
- 3 This slow cooker Irish stew recipe is perfect for family dinners
- 4 Inspiring emigrant letters home to Ireland from America in the Famine era
- 5 The real Irish woman behind one of the most iconic images from Ireland's Famine
- 6 Kneading Kin - My Nana's Irish soda bread recipe
- 7 WATCH: Guide for what to see and do in Annascaul, Co Kerry
- 8 James Joyce's “Ulysses”: What food did Leopold Bloom eat?
- 9 James Connolly and the fire of the Easter Rising