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 amazing life of Mary Dooley, an orphan girl from a Galway workhouse
Could your ancestor have been an orphan workhouse girl who emigrated in 1853?
In forgotten famine of 1879 Irish Americans aided relief efforts
The Irish took sides in the Spanish Civil War
Secret tunnels used for testing machine guns by Michael Collins revealed
Easter Rising’s influence on Irish American culture to be examined at UMass
Hidden history: Anglo-Indian branches in an Irish family tree
5,800-year-old rock scribing found near Ireland’s Croagh Patrick
Why Ireland owes Irish America a huge amount
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