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.
Note canceling 1916 Easter Rising to be auctioned in April
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US detective tracks down ancestral Belfast home from photo
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Digging Seamus Heaney in my Brooklyn classroom and around the world
How British WWII hero Alan Turing saved our world
Names and lives lived are alive in memory 13 years after 9/11
Most read
- 1 Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
- 2 Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
Arbour Hill, Dublin’s forgotten memorial to the men of 1916
WATCH: Amazing colorized footage of Titanic in Belfast
Faces of the Titanic: Irishman Jeremiah Burke sent a message in a bottle before his death
WATCH: 1989 RTÉ report highlights blight of emigration on Mayo town
Was the coward of the Titanic really a hero? The book "Understanding J. Bruce Ismay" says yes
Genealogy