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.
Irish Twitter account names every single Great Hunger emigrant
Auction of Patrick Pearse’s mysterious second note of surrender in 1916
The near disaster of my first holy communion
Waist-high snowfall in 822 AD led to Irish famine and death
Irish American Civil War soldier’s last letter home, found on his dead body
Retracing my Irish great-grandmother’s steps in her little village of New York City
Dublin woman discovers she was born into Nazi breeding program
Remembering ‘Longest Day’ author Cornelius Ryan
Rare Irish silver from Cromwell era to be auctioned in England
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
On This Day: Michael Collins killed in an ambush in Co Cork
Final days of Michael Collins: ambush, assassination, and peace talks in Ireland's Civil War
"Galway Bay" - the mystery man who wrote the classic song
The makers of Michael Collins' death mask believed he was shot at close range
On This Day: A US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison
Genealogy
