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.
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
How Jackie Onassis Kennedy saved New York's iconic Grand Central station
What did a young John F Kennedy look like during World War II? (PHOTOS)
Ireland’s population will grow to pre-famine levels in the next 20 years
Irish Travellers are genetically different from the people of Ireland
Romantic Valentine's Day gift ideas with an Irish twist
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