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.
Behind the name: Claire, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
On This Day: Dublin's Bloody Sunday of 1920
From Connecticut to Cael Uisce - American man finds his Fermanagh family
JFK's strong Irish roots in Limerick, Fermanagh, Cork, and Clare
10 previously very common Irish baby names that are going extinct
Plant a tree in Ireland for Thanksgiving and give thanks to your heritage
Mysteries of deserted pre-Famine village on Achill Island revealed
A reunion at an 18th-century family homestead in Leitrim
On This Day: William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize in 1923
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 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 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
- 8 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 9 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
History
Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
Irish who lost their lives on the Titanic remembered
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy
