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.
On This Day: Bloody Sunday erupts in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1972
Remarkable tales of American travelers unexpectedly finding their families on a tour of Ireland
On this day: Meghan Markle’s ancestors married in south Dublin
Could Montreal finally be getting a commemorative park for the 6,000 Irish who died there?
100 years ago today, the Irish War of Independence began
How four Irish rebels escaped from a Welsh prison on the day the Irish parliament was found
Moving Irish Humans of New York post has the internet sobbing
Safe in the arms of my Irish birth mother and English adoptive mother
Irish WW2 hero’s son given medals his father never received
Most read
- 1 On This Day: The Titanic's tragic last stop in Cobh, Co Cork
- 2 Documentary reveals incredible colorized footage of the Titanic
- 3 Savage! Funny phrases Irish use that Americans don’t
- 4 On This Day: The US Civil War begins in 1861
- 5 Faces of the Titanic: Irish woman Bridget Delia Bradley tried to climb back onto sinking ship
- 6 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
- 7 First oil tankers leave Whitegate as Gardaí clash with protestors at the site
- 8 WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
- 9 On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
History
The dazzling life of Mabelle Gilman Corey
On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
On This Day: The US Civil War begins in 1861
Faces of the Titanic: Irish woman Bridget Delia Bradley tried to climb back onto sinking ship
Documentary reveals incredible colorized footage of the Titanic
Genealogy