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 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 WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
- 8 First oil tankers leave Whitegate as Gardaí clash with protestors at the site
- 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