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 the Irish Union soldiers stopped Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, this anniversary day
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Cloudy weather could have caused Celts' red hair
Bones of 5,000-year-old Stone Age child and adult found in Irish cave
How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
New online project will map out every ancient hill fort in Ireland
Famed Irish general Thomas Francis Meagher finally gets his marker in Brooklyn
Questions I wish people would stop asking me about being Irish
President of Ireland thanks Oklahoma tribe for their generosity during the Great Famine
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 Savage! Funny phrases Irish use that Americans don’t
- 6 Ireland's ancient holy wells of Saint Patrick
- 7 Faces of the Titanic: Irish woman Bridget Delia Bradley tried to climb back onto sinking ship
- 8 Irish music’s biggest party is back as Milwaukee Irish Fest unveils 2026 lineup
- 9 On This Day: Titanic sets sail from Southampton, docks in Cherbourg, France
History
Faces of the Titanic: Irish woman Bridget Delia Bradley tried to climb back onto sinking ship
WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
The Irish man who was hidden on a lifeboat as the Titanic sank
On This Day: The Titanic's tragic last stop in Cobh, Co Cork
On This Day: The Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998
Genealogy