
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.

"Bloody Irish" 1916 musical on PBS stays away from standard version of Irish history
Would you eat it? A biscuit that survived the Titanic is up for auction
Proof the Irish language is far from dead, from the Aran Islands to Dublin
First Great Hunger grave markers for New York unmarked graves
Blueshirts, Irish pro-fascist party, recalled in sale of rare uniform
Danny Boy! Mets sensation Daniel Murphy is close to his Irish roots
Our Irish name’s history exposed and shamed
Petition launched to officially re-name Irish Famine “The Great Hunger”
Ireland’s Minister for Arts tours New Brunswick for International Famine Commemoration
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
