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 delayed message from Michael Collins to army headquarters cost him his life
Today marks 51 years since John F. Kennedy was assassinated
Ireland planned to evacuate citizens via Aer Lingus if WWIII broke out
Plans to honor Irish woman who fought as a man in the American Civil War
Irish give thanks to Quakers for Famine relief
Roscommon archive reveals in-fighting and criminality among Irish during Great Hunger
Find information on your ancestors using historical Irish wills
Life of your ancestors in a historic Belfast shipyard
Millions of new historical Irish newspaper articles go online
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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
Ireland's most famous witchcraft trials
What you should know about Irish American mobster “The Irishman” Danny Greene
WATCH: Drive back in time through 1970s Dublin with this rare video
Original historic US documents to go on display in Belfast this year
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
Genealogy
