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.
Most read
- 1 Paul McCartney's Irish roots trace back to a small County Monaghan townland
- 2 WATCH: Conan O’Brien’s DNA test says he’s 100% Irish, stuns his doctor
- 3 Meet the Brennan clan, the Kilkenny name with a Viking king in its bloodline
- 4 The day 38 IRA prisoners escaped the Maze in the biggest jailbreak in British history
- 5 WATCH: 1960s short film follows adventures of group of boys in Ireland
- 6 Paul McCartney's Irish roots lead back to a quiet corner of County Monaghan
- 7 The 1922 fire destroyed millions of Irish records but these five sets survived
- 8 Mark the start of fall with this Irish autumn pudding recipe
- 9 Remembering James Fitzmaurice, the Dubliner who first flew the Atlantic east to west
History
A new free site maps all 151,307 records in Ireland's national monuments inventory
Remembering James Fitzmaurice, the Dubliner who first flew the Atlantic east to west
Chalice from Joseph Plunkett and Grace Gifford's Kilmainham wedding goes on public display
WATCH: 1960s short film follows adventures of group of boys in Ireland
Thomas Ashe, the Kerry schoolteacher who died on hunger strike in 1917
Genealogy
