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.
IRA shot a British spy in Central Park 100 years ago
Irish creme egg jello shots recipe for Easter
Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
The last letter written on board the doomed Titanic
On This Day: Handel's "Messiah" premiered in Fishamble Street, Dublin
On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
Sonar images show Titanic in its ocean grave
Be part of history! Ireland of the Welcomes celebrates its 70th anniversary
Winston Churchill's surprising views on a United Ireland
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History
St. Patrick’s Breastplate: the prayer of Ireland's patron saint
St. Patrick’s Day on Achill Island - a day unlike any other
WATCH: Irish Colleens mark St. Patrick's Day more than a century ago
Ireland's spring equinox and St. Patrick's Day's pagan connection
On This Day: George Brent, the Irish rebel turned Hollywood star, was born in 1904
Genealogy