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.
Dramatic 1916 prison letters written by Roger Casement revealed
County Cork finally get their own passport for the Gathering 2013
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21 gun salute to mark the opening of The Gathering on January 1st in Cork
Top ten toasts for Christmas and the New Year
Joe Kennedy, Sr sought secret deal with De Valera on Irish ports during the War
Some Irish women did not want equality with men 1982 files show
Year ends with emigration from Ireland highest since Famine times
Secret message engraved by Irishman in Abraham Lincoln’s watch
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Ernest Ball, composer of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," was born
- 2 "The whole thing was completely out of control" - Passenger describes Dublin to Ibiza flight hell
- 3 Tuam excavation: Remains of more than 20 coffined infants recovered
- 4 Odds reveal three favourites for 2026 Rose of Tralee
- 5 Psychiatric evaluation ordered for man charged after serious assault in Co Waterford church
- 6 Derry designer announces major Dior fashion show in Dublin
- 7 Billionaire Peter Thiel's group takes legal action over axed Powerscourt conference
- 8 Have you got one? Rare Irish coin now worth a staggering €15,000
- 9 Navigating nationalism and neutrality: Irish-American opinion and the 1916 Rising
History
On This Day: Ernest Ball, composer of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," was born
“We choose to go to the moon” - Recalling JFK’s speech on anniversary of the moon landing
On This Day: IRA bombs in London kill 11 people, seven horses in 1982
On This Day: Muhammad Ali fights Al "Blue" Lewis at Dublin's Croke Park
Eliza O'Conor Sloane: Uncovering hidden women's history
Genealogy
