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 most picturesque historic villages
President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Irish Brigade
100% Irish? Confirm your suspicions or surprise yourself with a DNA test
Discover how you can use your Irish heritage in an online memorial to you loved one
Rare Kennedy family photos now available online, thanks to JFK Library
Dublin's newest museum maps a journey from Georgian house to tenement dwelling
Who were the Black Irish, and what is their story?
The real-life “Jaws” - New Jersey shark attacks in 1916
Dublin Magdalene Laundry closed in 1996 could be a museum to women and children who suffered
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
