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.
The sinking of HMS Wasp, 1884 – A curse, sabotage or human error?
D-Day: The Irish heroes of the battle that turned WWII to the Allies' favor
100-year old Irish American hero of D-Day recalls the battle
How the weather report from a Co Mayo lighthouse changed the D-Day invasion
The many, mighty Irish American Ryans of D-Day
How modern Ireland was created
The hidden link between hurling and ice hockey
Washington Ireland Program launches largest ever Class
When nationalists burned down an Irish castle during IRA hunger strikes
Most read
- 1 WATCH: Liam Neeson takes his Easter Bunny audition very seriously
- 2 The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
- 3 Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
- 4 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
- 5 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 6 On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
- 7 WATCH: Pilots make skilled landings as flights in and out of Dublin are cancelled by Storm Dave
- 8 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
- 9 How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
History
All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?
On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
Why Easter is such an important holiday to the Irish
The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
The 1916 Easter Rising - How Irish America and Ireland saw it very differently
Genealogy