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.
5 things you didn't know about your Mayo ancestors
1,500-year-old Galway bones and antlers believed to be part of ancient rituals
Quinnipiac Irish Famine museum puts records of the Great Hunger online
Debates bound to arise surrounding the 1916 Easter Rising centenary
“Building Ireland” looks at rumor Drogheda viaduct was built on foundations of Cotton Wool
4,000 year-old pit discovered on Sligo’s Coney Island
Long-lost Irish cousins reunited in Boston after 86 years
New bog body found by peat worker most likely from Bronze Age
Irish political cartoons from Home Rule period acquired by Great Hunger Institute (PHOTOS)
Most read
- 1 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 2 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 3 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 4 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 5 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 6 Summer takes a time-out! Cooler rainy days are on the way
- 7 The Limerick man who became the mayor of Houston, Texas
- 8 The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
- 9 2027 inflation 'will be higher than forecast', warns Bank of Ireland
History
WATCH: US travel documentary from 1934 gives glimpse of Ireland
The ten most beautiful places to visit in Ireland
The Limerick man who became the mayor of Houston, Texas
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it
Navigating nationalism and neutrality: Irish-American opinion and the 1916 Rising
Genealogy
