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.
Margaret Haughery: The "Irish angel" of New Orleans
When Jackie Kennedy brought her children to Waterford after JFK’s death
Spanish Armada treasure discovered off the Sligo coast
Bob Dylan is massively influenced by Ireland’s folk singers The Clancy Brothers
How an elephant named Cindy came to be memorialized in Co Roscommon
On the anniversary of the 1798 rebellion we remember the Irish rebel, Betsy Gray
Illegally adopted Irish woman finally finds birth parents thanks to DNA testing
Scientists investigating authenticity of message in bottle from French girl drowned on the Titanic
History awaits you as Ireland reopens this summer, get inspired
Most read
- 1 WATCH: Irish short film about an Irish father and son's Titanic twist of fate
- 2 WATCH: Liam Neeson takes his Easter Bunny audition very seriously
- 3 The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
- 4 Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
- 5 Darina Allen's Irish lemon tart recipe
- 6 Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
- 7 On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
- 8 All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?
- 9 WATCH: Pilots make skilled landings as flights in and out of Dublin are cancelled by Storm Dave
History
Gráinne Ní Mháille and the two laws that shaped an Irish legend
Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
WATCH: Irish short film about an Irish father and son's Titanic twist of fate
All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?
Genealogy