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.
Irish university starts world’s largest crowdsourcing project about Vikings
Chilling real-time animation of Titanic sinking isn’t for everyone (VIDEOS)
Irish sisters search for their long lost mother in the US – Can you help?
George Clooney cites his Great Hunger roots in refugee speech
50,000 military records of Easter Rising and War of Independence released
The most famous and successful Irish siblings (PHOTOS)
Jackie Kennedy’s sister was “relieved” after JFK’s assassination
The famous Irish American baby named Abe Lincoln born during the US Civil War
Patrick Pearse 1916 surrender letter may sell for as much as $1.7 million
Most read
- 1 Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
- 2 Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
Are there human remains on board Titanic?
On This Day: Ireland's Easter Rising begins in 1916
Patrick Dooley died on the Titanic, he'd visited his dying father in Ireland
Plaque unveiled to mark birth place of Harry Clarke, Irish stained glass artist & illustrator
Titanic timeline: Tracing the famous ship's creation and demise
Genealogy