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 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 WATCH: Liam Neeson takes his Easter Bunny audition very seriously
- 4 The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
- 5 Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
- 6 Darina Allen's Irish lemon tart recipe
- 7 Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
- 8 On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
- 9 All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?
History
Gráinne Ní Mháille and the two laws that shaped an Irish legend
Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
WATCH: Irish short film about an Irish father and son's Titanic twist of fate
All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?
Genealogy