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.
Behind the Name: Sinead, an Irish name deserving of a return to the spotlight
On This Day: US Army Brigadier General Michael Corcoran was born in Sligo in 1827
On This Day: Michael Cusack, the father of the GAA, is born in Co Clare
On This Day: Irish patriot Robert Emmet executed in Dublin in 1803
21 Irish surnames that make brilliant baby names
O'Neill: History of the Irish surname and famous faces
The truth about Irish bog bodies
How Irish Famine immigrants changed New York forever
Understanding how Irish surnames were created
Most read
- 1 Are there human remains on board Titanic?
- 2 Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
- 3 50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 On This Day: Ireland's Easter Rising begins in 1916
- 5 Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
- 6 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 7 Delicious Irish recipes for Easter Sunday
- 8 April Fools! Some of the best pranks in Irish history
- 9 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
History
Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
Faces of the Titanic: Ellen Toomey, the third class domestic servant who survived
Genealogy
