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.
These online parish records will forever change how we find our Irish ancestors
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How Ireland today compares to Ireland in 1916
Four unexpected places to find your Irish ancestors (and their little dog too!)
Tragic Glasnevin historian’s grave now has more visitors than Michael Collins
Win the ultimate Irish family history experience
The three brave Irish sisters who raised me in Brooklyn (PHOTOS)
There’s a petition to honor the 1916 centenary with a Google Doodle
Urgent appeal to the Irish in the US to check their attics for 1916 memorabilia
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
WATCH: Old Irish anti-war song comes to life in 1978 short film "Christmas Morning"
What is the Irish Christmas season tradition of Daisy Day?
Galway to host 2026 National Famine Commemoration
Ancient Christmas traditions that are still followed in Ireland
WATCH: Vintage Irish tourism video shows off the best bits of Ireland
Genealogy