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.
On This Day: Lord Haw Haw, Irish American Nazi propagandist, born in 1906
Reflecting on the feisty Irish women of France, past, present and future
On This Day: Brian Boru, legendary High King of Ireland, died in 1014
Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
Ireland's oldest and most charming pubs
New book explores the overlooked story of Bridget Kennedy
On This Day: Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816
The daughter of Irish immigrants who survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic disasters
WATCH: Meet Ireland’s last cycling postman in this 1975 interview
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- 3 Greatest quotes from and about Michael Collins
- 4 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
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- 6 The extraordinary life of Thomas Francis Meagher the Immortal Irishman
- 7 The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
- 8 Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll: The Irish immigrant turned NYC gangster
- 9 Ireland urged to recognise symptoms of the nation’s “Hidden Condition”
History
Michael Malloy - the Irishman in The Bronx that could not be murdered
The extraordinary life of Thomas Francis Meagher the Immortal Irishman
The Irish Fenian invasion of Canada in 1866
The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
Greatest quotes from and about Michael Collins
Genealogy