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.
An emigrant's praise of Irish rain
The children's thank you book that highlighted Ireland's post-war aid to Germany
Divers discover ancient artifacts in River Shannon while searching for missing persons
Northern Ireland's most popular and unusual Irish baby names of 2020 revealed
Now 100, the little Irish girl who rode an Orphan Train to Texas
The myths and legends of Ireland's hound of deep, the Dobhar Chu
The untold story of the women who helped build the US railroads
Finding your United States military Irish for Memorial Day
Remember our fighting Irish American warriors this Memorial Day
Most read
- 1 Experiencing Titanic's last port of call in Cobh, Ireland
- 2 What did the Titanic passengers eat?
- 3 On This Day: Irish woman shoots Benito Mussolini in the face
- 4 How the 1916 Easter Rising gave way to Ireland's War of Independence
- 5 The weird and wonderful place names around Ireland
- 6 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 7 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 8 James Connolly and the fire of the Easter Rising
- 9 Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
History
Red wine in Georgian Dublin: it's healing and detrimental effects
What did the Titanic passengers eat?
Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
WATCH: 75 years after, an eye-witness to the 1916 Easter Rising tells her story
Douglas Hyde, Ireland’s poet president who helped save the Irish language
Genealogy