
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.

Tracing your ancestors from immigration and travel records
Memories of days gone by
Five things you didn’t know about your Derry ancestors
The forgotten hero of Irish golf: John McDermott
Wexford reenacts 1798 Rebellion Battle of Vinegar Hill
Efforts to commission statue of Irish freedom fighter and rebel John Devoy
Largest ever collection of Northern Ireland Troubles memorabilia needs a new home
Irish slave owners were compensated historian reveals
Fifty people, one question: ‘when are you at your most Irish?’ (VIDEO)
Most read
- 1 LAST CHANCE to WIN a trip to Ireland! Don't miss your chance to share your love letter
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History

Irish-led study finds physical evidence of gladiators battling lions from the Roman era
WATCH: What's a (1970s) house party without a take-home pack of Guinness?
How a white lie saved one Irish woman's life aboard the Titanic
Fascinating pensions records pre-Easter Rising and beyond reveals a wealth of Irish history
On This Day: Oscar Wilde's trial for "gross indecency" begins in London
Genealogy
