
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.

Learn the ancient Irish language with this new, self-paced online course
Remarkable life stories from my grandmother's family in post-Famine Ireland
Faces of the Titanic: Ellen Toomey, the third class domestic servant who survived
Irish recorded the first solar eclipse in 512
How to trace your Irish roots and build your family tree
The Irish man who was hidden on a lifeboat as the Titanic sank
19-year-old Cork man sent message in a bottle from the Titanic
After the Titanic sank, the ship’s owner hid away in Co Galway
On This Day: Irish humorist Flann O’Brien passed away in 1966
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History

Battle of the Boyne: Catholic troops were "dead drunk," firsthand account reveals
WATCH: This Aer Lingus advert from the 1960s will have you feeling nostalgic
Heartbreaking images from Northern Ireland remind us why we can never return to the Troubles
How Sybil Connolly led the Irish invasion into the fashion world
The incredible story of the first American ship to bring Famine relief to Ireland
Genealogy
