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.
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)
School days provide more clues to Irish ancestry
Ireland’s historical newspapers – The Belfast Morning News
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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