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.
Barefoot and brave - Cork's 1890 All-Ireland hurling rebels
How Theodore Roosevelt made Irish hero Cúchulainn popular again
The rare unisex Irish baby name that’s perfect for autumn
The contribution of Irish labor in the US following the Great Famine
How many of these 101 Irish words do you know?
This ‘beautiful’ Irish baby name has had a surge in popularity
WATCH: How currachs, ancient Irish boats, were made
How The Ancient Order of Hibernians identity is rooted in history
The most common surnames in Ireland and their meanings
Most read
- 1 Are there human remains on board Titanic?
- 2 Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
- 3 50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 On This Day: Ireland's Easter Rising begins in 1916
- 5 Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
- 6 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 7 Delicious Irish recipes for Easter Sunday
- 8 April Fools! Some of the best pranks in Irish history
- 9 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
History
Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
Faces of the Titanic: Ellen Toomey, the third class domestic servant who survived
Genealogy
