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.
The truth behind Ireland’s healers - the seventh sons of seventh sons
A guide to the smartest and strangest Irish proverbs
Find your family history online - Ireland's 1926 Census is being digitized
Irish blessings and sayings for friendship
Random and weird facts about Ireland
The meanings behind ancient Celtic Irish symbols
Rare Irish baby names that deserve their time in the spotlight
Columbus was a mass killer and the father of the slave trade
Did St. Brendan arrive in America before Christopher Columbus?
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
- 3 50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 5 Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
- 6 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 7 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
- 8 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 9 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
History
Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
Irish who lost their lives on the Titanic remembered
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy