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.
Time to reclaim great Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn
Jackie Kennedy's private life revealed by her Irish-born assistant
Molly Maguires story staged in Ireland for the first time
First photograph of James Connolly taken before his 1916 execution
Ireland deem Patrick Pearse surrender letter too expensive to buy
Which Irish names are making a comeback?
Can you guess the ratio of Irish Americans to the number of Irish?
When racism ruled New York and my great-great-grandfather died
How Hitler’s henchman became an Irish farmer after the war
Most read
- 1 Experiencing Titanic's last port of call in Cobh, Ireland
- 2 What did the Titanic passengers eat?
- 3 On This Day: Irish woman shoots Benito Mussolini in the face
- 4 How the 1916 Easter Rising gave way to Ireland's War of Independence
- 5 The weird and wonderful place names around Ireland
- 6 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 7 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 8 James Connolly and the fire of the Easter Rising
- 9 Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
History
Red wine in Georgian Dublin: it's healing and detrimental effects
What did the Titanic passengers eat?
Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
WATCH: 75 years after, an eye-witness to the 1916 Easter Rising tells her story
Douglas Hyde, Ireland’s poet president who helped save the Irish language
Genealogy
