Tracing Irish ancestors is not as difficult as you may think, to a point. Once you start going into the early eighteen hundreds it does become more difficult.
I have taken advantage of the Internet to trace as many of mine as possible without having to get up from my seat. There are more and more sites coming on line everyday with Irish records, the problem is they are all spread out, there is no central place you can go for all of them.
I am going to attempt to list them here for you. I will start with the ones I found the best and use time and time again. At the top of the list has to be the National Archives website where they have the 1901 and the 1911 census available free of charge. Next is the church records website but mostly for Co. Kerry. Hopefully they will get more counties on to it eventually. They have changed the layout of it recently to include more of their collections but they have made it overly complected. I only use it for the church records at the moment.
I have written a booklet for the kindle which goes into more detail about the availability of Irish records on the Internet. You can find it here: Booklet
An absolute mine of information can be gotten from the Mormans website, familysearch.org. They have collected births, marraiges, deaths, prision records, and many more documents for people all over the world not just the Irish.
1) http://www.nationalarchives.ie/
2) http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/
3) https://familysearch.org/
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