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.
On This Day: Irish political leader Garret Fitzgerald was born in 1926
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Countess Constance Markievicz was born in 1868
"Irish? Catholic? Join Here": Finding community with The Ancient Order of Hibernians
Take our Famous Brigid's Quiz and test your knowledge this Brigid's Day Bank Holiday
WATCH: Historic Irish American moments told through Pathé newsreels
Remembering the Irish NYPD patrolman who wrote one of Ireland's most loved ballads
WATCH: An Irish priest's incredible film footage of mid-century American life
The Irish roots behind America's Groundhog Day
Exploring Celestial Celtic-Christianity this St. Brigid's Day
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- 2 Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
- 3 50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 5 Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
- 6 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 7 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 8 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
- 9 Delicious Irish recipes for Easter Sunday
History
Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
Ireland's 'American Presidents Trail' confirmed as part of America250 programme
110th anniversary of Ireland's Easter Rising to be marked in Dublin on Sunday
Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy