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.
Why is Derry also called Londonderry?
On This Day: The Lusitania sunk off the coast of County Cork
What's your Irish County? County Derry
WATCH: What do these Dubliners from 1982 really think of Cork people?
Ireland's most beautiful landscape - Beara, West Cork
Top interesting facts about County Cork
Easter Rising hero Micheál O’Hanrahan remembered on anniversary of his execution in 1916
On This Day: Edward Daly, the Easter Rising leader was executed
Fast-rising "classic" baby names that are making a comeback in Ireland in 2025
Most read
- 1 WATCH: These epic Irish dancing fails are absolutely hilarious
- 2 The "P.S. I Love You" filming locations you can visit in Ireland
- 3 Police learn where Glen Hansard spent final hours between Wren’s Nest and fatal crash
- 4 Ireland's most popular counties and their top attractions
- 5 Gardaí believe Glen Hansard lost control of bike before fatal crash
- 6 Irish politicians trying to ensure Trump stays away from parliament – and a Connolly clash
- 7 First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
- 8 WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
- 9 WATCH: Epic Irish singsong of "The Rattlin Bog" atop Mt Kilimanjaro
History
On This Day: Thomas Francis Meagher, the greatest Irishman in American history, was born
On This Day: Easter Rising rebel Sir Roger Casement was executed in Britain
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
WATCH: Poignant short Irish film shows the reality of living in rural Ireland in 1974
WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
Genealogy
