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.
Destruction of the Irish Public Records Office 1922
An insight into 19th century Dubliners
Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith’s lives celebrated in Glasnevin cemetery
State funeral for forgotten 1916 rebel after DNA testing confirms identity
Mystery of birthplace of Mathew Brady, American Civil War photographer resolved (PHOTOS)
Unseen images from Éamon de Valera’s 1917 election released (PHOTOS)
Could your old Irish coin collection be worth thousands?
It’s official: Irish heritage certificates a bust as government discontinues
Conan O’Brien, Lisa Kudrow complain Irish ancestry is impossible to trace (VIDEO)
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
On This Day: Irish literary star Oscar Wilde born in Dublin in 1854
WATCH: When Ted Kennedy visited in Ireland in 1962
A look at Irish American John L. Sullivan, the greatest boxer of his era
LISTEN: What you should know about the Irish folk song "The Rattlin' Bog"
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Prize for Literature this month in 1995
Genealogy
