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.
A look inside Ireland’s historical newspapers – The Sligo Champion
Over 700 items are up for auction from the Guinness family’s house in Co. Kildare
Detailed images of WWII shipwrecks in the Irish sea reveal new info (PHOTOS)
Guinness’ clock housed by Irish gov that plays “God Save the Queen” fetches $129k
New documentary explores Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish diaspora
Trinity College Dublin's free online course on the lead up to 1916 Easter Rising (VIDEO)
Ireland’s most haunted house filled with spooky tales for Halloween
Social snapshot of Clare in 1800s discovered in tragic workhouse records
"Bloody Irish" 1916 musical on PBS stays away from standard version of Irish history
Most read
- 1 Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 5 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 6 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 7 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 8 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 9 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
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
