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.
Family famine stories sought as Famine Voices Roadshow begins tour of US and Canada
Faces of the Titanic: William Burke, Irish hero who saved a woman's life
The use of IEDs in the Irish War of Independence
How Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination inspired RFK's greatest speech
Ireland’s first astronaut? Mayo woman continues training in US
Birth “backlash” politics - the assassinations, riots and war protests of 1968
Selling my parents’ Co. Clare tavern where all the Irish music greats played
From the Great Blasket to America - a memoir of the longest surviving islander
“Your father has gone to look after Patrick:” How JFK Jr and Caroline’s nanny broke news of JFK’s death
Most read
- 1 These hilarious gravestone epitaphs prove Irish dark wit is unmatched
- 2 On This Day: The Titanic's tragic last stop in Cobh, Co Cork
- 3 A funny Irish saying to ward off your enemies
- 4 The Irish who lived and died on the Titanic
- 5 Documentary reveals incredible colorized footage of the Titanic
- 6 Savage! Funny phrases Irish use that Americans don’t
- 7 Ireland's ancient holy wells of Saint Patrick
- 8 On This Day: The US Civil War begins in 1861
- 9 Faces of the Titanic: Irish woman Bridget Delia Bradley tried to climb back onto sinking ship
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