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.
Ireland’s oldest grave is more than 9,000 years old
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Celtic myth still hold influence on Australian baby names in 2021
Celebrate Arbor Day by planting an Irish Heritage Tree
How three brave sisters defended their family’s home in the Irish Land War
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins passes away aged 90
Graphic illustrations reveal “The Truth Behind the Irish Famine” in new book
The first casualties of the 1916 Rising took place far from Dublin
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 25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
- 9 Artist Paul Henry's thoughts on the enchanting West of Ireland
History
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
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
Genealogy
