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.
Descendants of Irishmen killed in mining disaster 150 years ago search for answers
The infamous story of the Armagh woman who was buried alive
4,800-year-old Newgrange bone leads to theory on how dogs were domesticated
Exploring the life of an Irish railroad family at the Baltimore Shrine to the Immigrant Irish
NI Police colluded with Loyalist killers of six Catholics watching World Cup
Twenty-two pounds of 2,000-year-old bog butter unearthed in Co. Meath
Have any Guinness memorabilia lying around? It could be worth a pretty penny
300th anniversary of the launch of one of the first ships to bring the Irish to America
Donald Trump and Joe Biden set to face off in Ireland, Scotland
Most read
- 1 Lord Haw Haw: Hitler's infamous Irishman hanged for treason
- 2 On This Day: Brian Boru, legendary High King of Ireland, died in 1014
- 3 The perfect Irish potato salad recipe!
- 4 The real way to drink a pint of Guinness, or is it all nonsense?
- 5 Ireland's Travel Secrets: The Great Sugar Loaf in Co Wicklow
- 6 Ireland’s funniest regional jokes capture the spirit of the counties
- 7 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
- 8 The Camino de Santiago and its links to Ireland's Guinness
- 9 Step into color! April paints Ireland at its brightest
History
Honora “Nano” Nagle and the lantern that changed Irish education
Lord Haw Haw: Hitler's infamous Irishman hanged for treason
Micheál O’Hanrahan and the Easter Rising stand at Jacob’s Factory
In Shakespeare’s time, Irish poetry had the power to kill rats
On This Day: Brian Boru, legendary High King of Ireland, died in 1014
Genealogy