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.
Unique Church of Ireland records are a treasure trove of information on your ancestors
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
Most read
- 1 Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 4 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 5 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 "No Welcome for Trump" - Dublin and Doonbeg protests set for US President's visit
- 8 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 9 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
History
On This Day: John Barry, the Irish "Father of the American Navy," dies in 1803
Expert Irish genealogy group publishes new guide to Irish Civil Registration
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
Genealogy
