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.
Letters of a family to their son in America after the Famine
A deceitful life: a Nazi’s treason and life as an Irish impostor
Evidence shows Amelia Earhart and her Irish American navigator may have survived crash
Tragic lives of wife and children of Easter Rising martyr Thomas MacDonagh
Did you know Robert Emmet, executed on this day in 1803, has a D.C. park named after him?
George Washington’s greatest sniper was an Irish marksman
All these years later, JFK still inspires
How the Irish Union soldiers stopped Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, this anniversary day
Did you know Canada became one country because of Fenian invasion?
Most read
- 1 Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
- 2 Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
Ireland's most famous witchcraft trials
What you should know about Irish American mobster “The Irishman” Danny Greene
WATCH: Drive back in time through 1970s Dublin with this rare video
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
Genealogy
