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.
Create a family tree as a legacy to pass on to the next generation
Find your fighting Irish ancestors in American Civil War records
Tracing your Irish family history: Vital records
Irish photographer’s unearthly snap of Northern Lights and Milky Way
Was the Battle of Clontarf the equivalent of the Easter Rising?
Cambridge scholar claims ancient account of the Battle of Clontarf is fiction
Cornish join Welsh, Irish and Scots as Celtic minority (VIDEOS)
16th century woodcut proves Irish were the original hipsters
Top ten ways to tell if an Irish farmer loves you
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- 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
Was the coward of the Titanic really a hero? The book "Understanding J. Bruce Ismay" says yes
When Dubliners’ "Seven Drunken Nights" was banned for being too rude
"Lost memoir" sheds light on former Taoiseach's views on JFK, America
Remembering trailblazing Irish American photographer Anna Frances Levins
Ireland's most famous witchcraft trials
Genealogy