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.
Celebration of Irish who built the world’s major cities comes to New York and Chicago (VIDEO)
Did you have family who boarded the Titanic from Cobh? Tell their story
A century of Irish history goes online in posters, pamphlets and diaries (PHOTOS)
Irish family history from ashes to archives: Free access to National Archive records
The organized criminal underworld in historical Dublin
The unfortunate Irish exiled to Australia
Funeral of murdered 1832 Duffy’s Cut female victim in Ireland this week
Which Irish-American women could go on the $10 bill?
Was my Irish ancestor partly to blame for the drowning of 1,000 people?
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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