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.
5,000-year-old Newgrange to be X-rayed to determine origin
The Flying Boats of Foynes – an era of very different air travel
Walt Disney asked to meet Éamon de Valera while researching leprechauns
Padraig Pearse as cross-dresser in controversial Easter Rising comedy
Canada announces $5 million in funding for Grosse Île, famine-era Ellis Island
The Green Redcoats: The story of the Kilmainham Pensioners
Over 1.1 million additional historical Irish newspaper articles go online
What county has the best accent in Ireland?
Orphans of Ireland’s Great Hunger married off to Australian convicts
Most read
- 1 Experiencing Titanic's last port of call in Cobh, Ireland
- 2 WATCH: Irish short film about an Irish father and son's Titanic twist of fate
- 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 Darina Allen's Irish lemon tart recipe
- 6 Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
- 7 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 8 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 9 On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
History
On This Day: An Irishman was the first paid television preformer
With the IrishCentral Newsletter you decide the stories
On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
World Health Day: Ancient Irish health tips, remedies, and cures
How the 1916 Easter Rising gave way to Ireland's War of Independence
Genealogy
