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 domestic lives in New York tenements explored at Great Hunger Museum
Glasgow memorial to Irish Great Hunger deemed offensive
Kennedy Book and Research Archive launched in Wexford
New York's Irish Famine Memorial is closed down AGAIN
Irish Mammy’s website lists Irish baby girl names – what do you think?
45 or under? We want to learn more about your thoughts on your Irish heritage
Tullamore D.E.W. Irish whiskey launches stunning campaign inspired by the history of ‘No Irish Need Apply’
Maine Irish fundraise to bring Ancestry DNA tests to Galway
Could you help photo detectives track down people in old Irish photos?
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- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
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- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
Original historic US documents to go on display in Belfast this year
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
"Most dangerous woman in America" - Mother Jones remembered for a life of labour and defiance
Titanic hero Irishman Thomas Andrews epitomized bravery as ship went down
DNA test led a Chicago woman to find family ties to Mrs. O’Leary of the Great Fire fame
Genealogy