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.
The Irish hands that built the Empire State Building
On This Day: IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, 12 killed
On This Day: Irish troops killed in the Niemba massacre in Congo
Mick the Miller: The most successful greyhound of all time
Guy Fawkes was killed trying to restore a Catholic to British throne
National Love Your Red Hair Day: Maureen O'Hara and the most famous redheads in history
As important as Newgrange or Tara - an ancient Irish site you’ve never heard of
15 Irish names that are technically for boys – but perfect for girls
How the redhead gene evolved due to lack of sunlight
Most read
- 1 Are there human remains on board Titanic?
- 2 Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
- 3 50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 On This Day: Ireland's Easter Rising begins in 1916
- 5 Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
- 6 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 7 Delicious Irish recipes for Easter Sunday
- 8 April Fools! Some of the best pranks in Irish history
- 9 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
History
Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
Faces of the Titanic: Ellen Toomey, the third class domestic servant who survived
Genealogy