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.
Dublin memorial honoring 13,000 Irish killed at WWI Flanders Fields opened
Why the Irish invaded Canada to end British rule in Ireland
Stunning decor salvaged from Titanic's sister ship for auction in Dublin
The very odd Padraig Pearse and Hedy Lamarr connection
Sad snobbery about sad reality of Irish American roots in the US
"Movement of Extremists": the secret police records from the 1916 Easter Rising
WATCH: British Pathé’s treasures of Irish history unearthed
John Haltigan - a Kilkenny Fenian born 200 years ago
Nothing prepared me for what I found in Irish adoption records
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 The weird and wonderful place names around Ireland
- 6 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 7 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 8 James Connolly and the fire of the Easter Rising
- 9 Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
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