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.
The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
The Pogues are back! Iconic Celtic punk group announces 2025 tour dates
On This Day: Father Michael McGivney, the Founder of the Knights of Columbus was born
10 rare Irish baby names for boys to have on your radar in 2025
Irish baby name is the fastest rising name in England Wales
The man who witnessed Michael Collins' death in 1922
Remembering Daniel O’Connell's final tragic plea to save Ireland from Famine on his anniversary
On This Day: Thomas Francis Meagher, the greatest Irishman in American history, was born
Letter to the Editor: "Unlikely" Ireland's Great Hunger Museum Fairfield can deliver
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 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
- 8 Delicious Irish recipes for Easter Sunday
- 9 April Fools! Some of the best pranks in Irish history
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
