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.
The Irish man who was hidden on a lifeboat as the Titanic sank
19-year-old Cork man sent message in a bottle from the Titanic
After the Titanic sank, the ship’s owner hid away in Co Galway
Celebrating an Irish Easter: traditions, blessings and recipes
On This Day: Arthur Griffith, who helped launch Sinn Féin and shape modern Ireland, was born in 1872
Ten Easter bunny jokes for the wee ones
Irish service that reconnects Irish emigrants with families "inundated" since launch
Celebrate your Irish roots this spring with an Irish Heritage Tree discount
Popular Irish boy names as Gaeilge
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
- 3 WATCH: Liam Neeson takes his Easter Bunny audition very seriously
- 4 Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
- 5 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
- 6 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 7 Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
- 8 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 9 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
History
Why Easter is such an important holiday to the Irish
The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
The 1916 Easter Rising - How Irish America and Ireland saw it very differently
Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
My evening with Ned Kelliher, the jarvey of Tralee
Genealogy