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.
The IRA Chief of Staff who was “unbought, unconquered, and unpurchasable to the last”
Toronto honors doctor for compassion shown to Irish Great Hunger emigrants
Irishwoman the British could not contain whose name has faded from history
The remarkable story of John Keegan Casey, the bold Fenian boy
Early IRA ambushes in War of Independence were ill-equipped but successful
Stick fighting and the origins of the Shillelagh
Shocking murder of a 15-year-old Fianna Boy Scout 100 years ago
These US astronauts all have roots in Ireland
50 years ago today, Mary Jo Kopechne died in Ted Kennedy’s car at Chappaquiddick
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 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 6 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 7 James Connolly and the fire of the Easter Rising
- 8 Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
- 9 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
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
