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.
The Navvies: How the Irish built the modern British railways
Were your ancestors servants or masters in Ireland?
Mad Mac and Father Sexton: Irish Prisoners of War during the Second World War
Spanish Armada sailors may lie in unmarked mass grave in Northern Ireland
300 years of Catholic parish records site racks up 4 million hits
Irish government will fund 1916 Rising centenary events in Britain
Many No Irish Need Apply ads discovered in the New York Times archives (PHOTOS)
Record numbers visit historic Clare Loop Head lighthouse (PHOTOS)
Ireland’s government invests $2m into 5,000-year-old Ancient East (PHOTOS)
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 WATCH: Liam Neeson takes his Easter Bunny audition very seriously
- 6 The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
- 7 Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
- 8 Darina Allen's Irish lemon tart recipe
- 9 Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
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