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.
An Irishwoman was blamed for starting the Great Chicago Fire
An American journalist reports from Ireland during the Famine
How an Irish doctor survived WWII, captivity and the Atomic Bomb
Heartbreaking artwork depicting Great Hunger coffin ships now on display
I took my 80-year-old mother to Ireland to see the castles our ancestors built
I visited Ireland for the first time in 1957, when I was nine-years old (PHOTOS)
Where ten of the most famous Irish people are buried (PHOTOS)
What song did John F Kennedy ask Judy Garland to sing to him on the phone?
My great-aunt, the bootlegging Irish nun in Prohibition America
Most read
- 1 LAST CHANCE to WIN a trip to Ireland! Don't miss your chance to share your love letter
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
On This Day: Oscar Wilde's trial for "gross indecency" begins in London
The 1916 Easter Rising - How Irish America and Ireland saw it very differently
On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
The 1916 Easter Rising: A guide to the key figures, facts, and moments
Defending Trinity College during the 1916 Easter Rising
Genealogy
