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 bubonic plague scare in 1900
"Buried silently and sadly" - The Irish Famine dead of 1847
My great-uncle's Easter Rising fight at the South Dublin Union
How the Catholic church misjudged the Easter Rising
A look inside Co Donegal's Molloy & Sons tweed company
An Irish blessing of light and hope
How did Hollywood get its name? It all started in Ireland
The Irish "mudcrawlers" who fled to Wales during the Great Hunger
Irish mother who served British soldiers tea during Troubles shot weeks later
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 2 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 3 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 4 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 5 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 6 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 7 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 8 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 9 President Michael D. Higgins accuses Israel of leaking his Iran letter
History
