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.
500 child skeletons in workhouse mass grave tell of Great Hunger struggles
On This Day: A Famine ship carrying my Irish ancestors arrives in New York City in 1847
Castles to rent in Ireland for a fairy tale vacation
A look at New York City's oldest Irish pub, McSorley's
Irish artist brings historical photographs to life with state-of-the-art technology
Connect with Bronze Age Ireland with Irish Heritage Tree
Irish imprisoned in Bermuda during the Great Famine for stealing food
How a storm brought salvation to a Co Kerry community during the Great Famine
Three Irish sites nominated for UNESCO World Heritage status
Most read
- 1 Experiencing Titanic's last port of call in Cobh, Ireland
- 2 WATCH: Irish short film about an Irish father and son's Titanic twist of fate
- 3 On This Day: Irish woman shoots Benito Mussolini in the face
- 4 How the 1916 Easter Rising gave way to Ireland's War of Independence
- 5 Darina Allen's Irish lemon tart recipe
- 6 Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
- 7 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 8 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 9 On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
History
Vital 25th Amendment, the work of an Irish emigrant’s son
On This Day: An Irishman was the first paid television preformer
With the IrishCentral Newsletter you decide the stories
On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
World Health Day: Ancient Irish health tips, remedies, and cures
Genealogy