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.
150 years of Irish history in photos goes online
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
Most read
- 1 The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
- 2 The pros and cons of marrying an Irishman
- 3 Five things you didn't know about the Cliffs of Moher
- 4 Exploring Ireland's Gaeltachts: A revival of the Irish language
- 5 Traditional Irish recipes to make your summer fresh and tasty
- 6 On This Day: Five killed in Miami Showband Massacre in Co Down in 1975
- 7 Milwaukee Irish Fest returns to the lakefront with new headliners and hidden gems
- 8 Black Widows of Liverpool: The Irish sisters suspected of being prolific serial killers
- 9 Emotional footage shows Glen Hansard’s final gig just hours before fatal crash
History
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
History of Irish emigration: its tragedies and what we should embrace and celebrate
On This Day: Henry Ford was born in Detroit
Unsung Irish heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg
“Bang Bang” the famous Dublin’s character and lover of Westerns remembered
Genealogy