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 actress named Grand Marshal of Ireland's National St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2025
On This Day: Irish rebel leader Robert Emmet was born in 1778
The intersection of Saint Patrick and paganism in Ireland
What is the real meaning of Saint Patrick’s Day?
The real reason why there aren't any snakes in Ireland
Everything you need to know about Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025
All the pubs in Ireland used to be closed on St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Breastplate: the prayer of Ireland's patron saint
These were the most popular names for babies born in Ireland last year
Most read
- 1 Elkstone: Connecting the global Irish to the future of Irish venture
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
More Irish birth, marriage, and death certificates now available online
Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
IrishCentral Book of the Month: "Wounds - A Memoir of War and Love" by Fergal Keane
Titanic timeline: Tracing the famous ship's creation and demise
How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
Genealogy
