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.
Famous famine letter once owned by Rita Hayworth's family returns to Skibbereen
On This Day: Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol received its first prisoners in 1796
Young female 1916 Rising fighter in the GPO tells her story
Beautiful Irish baby names inspired by places in Ireland
Famed poet Dylan Thomas and his wild adventures at the ancient Irish Puck Fair
WATCH: Choir's infectious rendition of ancient Irish language song
Remembering John Boyle O'Reilly on the anniversary of his birth in County Meath
94-year-old American flag to be donated to Laois in honor of Irish pilot
50,000 Famine Irish were deported back to Ireland from the US
Most read
- 1 Irish Genealogy website offers free access to decades of birth, marriage and death records
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 5 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
- 8 25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
- 9 Dublin Castle tops the list as 13.4 million visit Ireland's heritage sites
History
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
Genealogy
