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.
"Bloody Irish" 1916 musical on PBS stays away from standard version of Irish history
Would you eat it? A biscuit that survived the Titanic is up for auction
Proof the Irish language is far from dead, from the Aran Islands to Dublin
First Great Hunger grave markers for New York unmarked graves
Blueshirts, Irish pro-fascist party, recalled in sale of rare uniform
Danny Boy! Mets sensation Daniel Murphy is close to his Irish roots
Our Irish name’s history exposed and shamed
Petition launched to officially re-name Irish Famine “The Great Hunger”
Ireland’s Minister for Arts tours New Brunswick for International Famine Commemoration
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 Darina Allen's Irish lemon tart recipe
- 6 Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
- 7 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 8 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 9 On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
History
On This Day: An Irishman was the first paid television preformer
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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