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 facts about Independence Day you may not know
This is the oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor
Win a copy of "Goddesses of Ireland” plus online Celtic course from Moon Mná
The Irish roots of Kate Bush
Was it genocide? What the British ruling class really said about the Irish Famine
What have the Irish done for America?
Ireland’s historic Birth Information and Tracing Act signed into law
Irish famine emigrant's emotional letter home to Mom and Dad in 1850
Happy birthday Katie Taylor! To celebrate we've planted her a tree in Ireland
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 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 6 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
- 7 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 8 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
- 9 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
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
