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.
How an Irish-born great-great-grandfather came to fight in the US Civil War
The top Irish Halloween scary spirits - a terrifying bunch
"The best left" - Irish emigrants and those who remained to pick up the pieces
Boston's Fenway Park - home to GAA, hurling, and freedom
Could these Irish names become extinct due to current trends?
Famine victims had badly rotten teeth due to heavy smoking new study reveals
The story of Chicago May, Irish Queen of crooks
Top Irish and Irish American resources, DNA explored at The Genealogy Event, New York
Ghost of 19th century nun appears in Galway photos
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