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.
PT Barnum circus star General Tom Thumb’s strong links to Ireland
Meet Kate Tyrrell, the first Irish woman to be a ship’s sea captain
WATCH: Amazing color footage of life in Killarney 75 years ago
This Irish baby name was EVERYWHERE in the 2000s, could it be due a comeback?
WATCH: Charming video visits Antrim lighthouses and the crews who maintained them
Two surprising Irish baby names are expected to "explode" in 2027
On This Day: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian leader, dies in the U.S.
Remembering the Irish NYPD patrolman who wrote one of Ireland's most loved ballads
The Irish immigrant who penned New Zealand's national anthem
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Irish starlet Maureen O'Hara died in the US in 2015
- 2 WATCH: A love story comes to a heartbreaking end in the 1916 Easter Rising
- 3 Stepping into history on the island of Inisheer
- 4 The amazing tale of Ireland's strongest man, Michael "Butty" Sugrue
- 5 Liam Neeson's best movies, ranked by the critics
- 6 On This Day: A US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison
- 7 WATCH: A visually stunning Irish travelogue from more than 60 years ago
- 8 Healthy Irish oat bread recipe from Roz Purcell
- 9 A guide to Tullaghogue Fort – ancient site of the O’Neill clan
History
The amazing tale of Ireland's strongest man, Michael "Butty" Sugrue
On This Day: A US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison
A guide to Tullaghogue Fort – ancient site of the O’Neill clan
WATCH: A visually stunning Irish travelogue from more than 60 years ago
In 1912, my Irish grandmother was booked to sail aboard The Titanic
Genealogy
