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.
Pittsburgh Irish Festival announces line-up for event's 30th celebration
On This Day: Easter Rising rebel Sir Roger Casement was executed in Britain
Irish Government digitizes O'Donovan Rossa's 19th-century Fenian newspaper
The first assassination carried out by Michael Collins's 'Squad'
The secret, tragic fate of Oscar Wilde’s half-sisters
On This Day: World War I air ace Edward “Mick” Mannock was killed in action in 1918
"No Irish Need Apply" - the signs and ads that vilified our Irish ancestors
Ireland takes fairies more seriously than you might think
Ulysses S. Grant, the first US president to ever visit Ireland, died on this day in 1885
Most read
- 1 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 4 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 5 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
- 8 Artist Paul Henry's thoughts on the enchanting West of Ireland
- 9 25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
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
