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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History
On This Day: John Barry, the Irish "Father of the American Navy," dies in 1803
Expert Irish genealogy group publishes new guide to Irish Civil Registration
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
Genealogy
