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.
Truth revealed about Irish relic of cross on which Jesus was crucified (VIDEO)
How Irish surnames came to be - what’s the story behind yours?
Raise a pint of Guinness to St. James on his feast day
Doctors, lawyers, teachers also died in Famine workhouses
The Irish goodbye becomes famous
Famous explorer to unveil plaque honoring historic 1976 re-enactment of St. Brendan's voyage
Churchill's closest confidant was a secretive self-hating Irish immigrant
New York City's own Brexit - Evacuation Day celebrations of 1783
Ireland should have a national day of commemoration for the Great Hunger
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 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 6 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 7 James Connolly and the fire of the Easter Rising
- 8 Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
- 9 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
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
