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.
The Toronto doctor who cared for Ireland’s Great Hunger victims
Why is Daniel O'Connell so revered?
Facts about The Great Famine emigration out of Ireland
Irish language phrases to use when your temper is up
Dublin's iconic GPO, at the heart of the city and Ireland's history
Vin Scully, beloved Irish American voice of the Dodgers, dies aged 94
Happy birthday Martin Sheen! To celebrate his Irish heritage we've planted a tree in Ireland
WATCH: Peter O'Toole poignantly describes what being Irish means to him
New permanent JFK exhibit opening at Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
- 3 50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 5 Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
- 6 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 7 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
- 8 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 9 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
History
Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
Irish who lost their lives on the Titanic remembered
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy