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.
An astronaut’s guide to Ireland with Commander Chris Hadfield
Ten ways to cure Irish homesickness
Speak like a proper Irishman with these “Culchie” definitions
500 Vikings descend on Dublin for the Battle of Clontarf 1,000th anniversary fest
Details of poison gas attack on Irish soldiers in World War I emerge
4,500 year-old path discovered near Galway Bay used by Celts
Traveling 503 islands off the coast of Ireland
Looking back at your family’s past
Stephen Colbert's proud embrace of his Irish roots
Most read
- 1 The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
- 2 WATCH: Liam Neeson takes his Easter Bunny audition very seriously
- 3 Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
- 4 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
- 5 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 6 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
- 7 How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
- 8 WATCH: Pilots make skilled landings as flights in and out of Dublin are cancelled by Storm Dave
- 9 Irish who lost their lives on the Titanic remembered
History
Why Easter is such an important holiday to the Irish
The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
The 1916 Easter Rising - How Irish America and Ireland saw it very differently
Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
My evening with Ned Kelliher, the jarvey of Tralee
Genealogy