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.
50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
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
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 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 6 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 7 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 8 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
- 9 Artist Paul Henry's thoughts on the enchanting West of Ireland
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
