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.
Napoleon’s Irish Legion in the post-1798 Rebellion years
5 things you didn’t know about your Offaly ancestors
Irish famine archive on migration to Canada launched online
Orange Order buys Battle of the Boyne gun for $31,000
Maeve Brennan: New York's 'Long-Winded Lady' by way of Dublin
Finally the true figure of how many fought in 1916
Once the most powerful fashion arbiter in America: Carmel Snow
Over 300,000 new historical Irish newspaper articles go online
Sergeant Patrick Masterson, Irish captor of the French eagle
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- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
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- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
"Most dangerous woman in America" - Mother Jones remembered for a life of labour and defiance
Titanic hero Irishman Thomas Andrews epitomized bravery as ship went down
DNA test led a Chicago woman to find family ties to Mrs. O’Leary of the Great Fire fame
University of Galway launched digital database of Irish American emigrant letters
Genealogy
