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.
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
Three-day festival in Montana pays tribute to great Irish General Thomas Meagher
Victim of only cult to ever have its roots in Ireland speaks out
What did a Dublin man living 500 years ago really look like? Now we know.
Most read
- 1 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 2 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 3 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 4 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 5 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 6 Summer takes a time-out! Cooler rainy days are on the way
- 7 The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
- 8 2027 inflation 'will be higher than forecast', warns Bank of Ireland
- 9 New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland
History
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it
Navigating nationalism and neutrality: Irish-American opinion and the 1916 Rising
Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland
Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
Genealogy