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.
John F. Kennedy assassination target was Governor Connally says historian
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
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- 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
