
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 Woodrow Wilson deceived Irish America over 1916, ignored Casement’s execution
A step-by-step guided tour of Micheal Collins’ Dublin
The important Irish American news stories that made history
110-year-old time capsule discovered under pub in Mayo
What’s your favorite poem from the 1916 Easter Rising? (POLL)
Unique new Irish collections added to Findmypast
Did your ancestor seek a life on the open waves as a Merchant Navy Seaman?
Bernie Sanders slammed Margaret Thatcher on IRA hunger strikers
My great-grandfather, Ireland’s forgotten Fenian, led secret missions for 1916
Most read
- 1 Come home to the West: Discover Ireland differently on Limerick Greenway
- 2 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 4 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 5 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 6 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 7 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 8 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 9 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
History

The Irish and Irish American signatories of the Declaration of Independence
175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
WATCH: Remarkable footage from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1940s
An Irish nun's friendship with Princess Diana
Genealogy
