
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.

Guests of the nation - Were the Irish really the most oppressed people ever?
Bare feet, furs and a girl’s bravery: Stories from the Irish Rebellion
Using Irish burial records and gravestones to trace your ancestors
Discovering I had a relative who fought for Lincoln in the Civil War
The Irish built America, but did you know an Irishman invented cement?
The Representative Church Body Library and their Irish family history records
Make your heart swell with love for Ireland with this short movie
On This Day: The Third Home Rule Bill passed the House of Commons in 1913
The Irish family tree of Bill O’Reilly, Soledad O’Brien and Bill Maher
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

Ireland's Gaelic games: A deep dive into Irish culture and heritage
The origins of Ireland's national anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann
WATCH: One of James Cagney's last films was about the Irish War of Independence
The last letter written on board the doomed Titanic
On This Day: Irish literary star Oscar Wilde born in Dublin in 1854
Genealogy
