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 history of Ireland Uilleann pipes
Explore your family's history as six more historic Irish newspapers go online
Site of Michael Collins’ assassination to be renovated
Who was Irish American hero Dorothy Day praised by Pope Francis?
Sister cities in Ireland and the US team up for 2016
British Labour Leader to erect plaque to 1916 heroine Countess Markievicz
National Famine Commemoration held in Northern Ireland for the first time
“Scandal” as Westmeath Bronze Age oak road mulched for compost
Rare examples of Irish American coins in the 1700s - 1800s (PHOTOS)
Most read
- 1 Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
- 2 Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
"Most dangerous woman in America" - Mother Jones remembered for a life of labour and defiance
Titanic hero Irishman Thomas Andrews epitomized bravery as ship went down
DNA test led a Chicago woman to find family ties to Mrs. O’Leary of the Great Fire fame
University of Galway launched digital database of Irish American emigrant letters
Genealogy
