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.
How my orphaned father rediscovered his Irish family
Heartwarming - and funny! - Irish sayings to remind you of the strength of family
A "forgotten" Irish girl’s name is seeing a huge rise in popularity
Celebrate Ireland's oldest trees with Irish Heritage Tree
The thrill of Halloween as a child in Ireland
Behind the name: Caelan, the top rising Irish name for baby boys
Five essential record sets for discovering your Irish heritage
Ancient Ireland's understanding and reverence for the environment
The rare Irish baby name used less than three times last year is perfect for your "little star"
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