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.
Did the ancient Irish trade instruments with musicians in ancient India?
My Grandfather: A forgotten hero of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
Ireland's sacred Celtic holidays
Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising
The London Jew gave his life for Ireland during Easter 1916
WATCH: Vintage footage of First Holy Communion in 1930s Ireland
LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
On This Day: Kathleen Daly Clarke, first female Lord Mayor of Dublin, died in 1972
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 2 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 3 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 4 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 5 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 6 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 7 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 8 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 9 President Michael D. Higgins accuses Israel of leaking his Iran letter
History
On This Day: Irish American hero Thomas Francis Meagher died in 1867
WIN a private walking tour of Dublin's Georgian architecture with lunch at the Merrion Hotel
WATCH: Incredible US footage of 1920s Ireland colorized
WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
WATCH: Ireland's "supertrain" was the "smooth, swift, and safe" way to travel in 1973
Genealogy
