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.
Was my Irish ancestor partly to blame for the drowning of 1,000 people?
How Irish lovers gave gifts long before the modern era
Discover the jailbirds in your family tree with Findmypast’s Crime and Punishment month
The Irish fighter boy and his flying shamrock
I never knew my Irish grandmother as much as I wanted to (PHOTOS)
How the nuns tamed the Gangs of New York
Dubliner in the Wild West tried to get LA to come to their senses over water
JFK visited Ireland for the first time 70 years ago today
2015 Irish Great Hunger commemorations to be held in Newry
Most read
- 1 Discover where nature meets heritage with CIE Tours' NEW Ireland Walking & Hiking tours
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
The siege of the Four Courts: The beginning of the Irish Civil War
On this day: 1959, Éamon de Valera becomes President of Ireland
The Dublin doctor who fought to end slavery and Irish racism in the US
WATCH: Summer on the sunny "Irish Riviera" nearly 90 years ago
GPO to become iconic museum in bold Dublin City Centre revamp
Genealogy
