
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 Navvies: How the Irish built the modern British railways
Were your ancestors servants or masters in Ireland?
Mad Mac and Father Sexton: Irish Prisoners of War during the Second World War
Spanish Armada sailors may lie in unmarked mass grave in Northern Ireland
300 years of Catholic parish records site racks up 4 million hits
Irish government will fund 1916 Rising centenary events in Britain
Many No Irish Need Apply ads discovered in the New York Times archives (PHOTOS)
Record numbers visit historic Clare Loop Head lighthouse (PHOTOS)
Ireland’s government invests $2m into 5,000-year-old Ancient East (PHOTOS)
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 2 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 3 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 4 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 5 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 6 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 7 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 8 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 9 President Michael D. Higgins accuses Israel of leaking his Iran letter
History

GPO to become iconic museum in bold Dublin City Centre revamp
The Irish duo who murdered 16 people and sold the cadavers
WATCH: What was it like learning to drive in Ireland in 1947
Most famous Irish royal couples of all time
On This Day: A million Irish turned out for Mass at the 1932 Eucharistic Congress
Genealogy
