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.
Quakers and their Great Hunger relief explored at Quinnipiac
Rifle of Bronx Irish hero who died on D-Day found after 72 years
“The famine is over it’s time to go home” graffiti in Scotland treated as hate crime
US expert hits “the jackpot” after 13 summer archaeological dig in Roscommon
Burial plot at Manhattan’s Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the market for $7 million
The amazing tale of Ireland's strongest man, Michael "Butty" Sugrue
New study reveals what Iron Age Irish ate 2,500 years ago
$7 million armored car robbery by Northern Irishman to get Hollywood treatment
Virgin Mary said to make an appearance at Knock on this day in 1879
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