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.
Celebrating the Irish who fought in the US Civil War this Memorial Day
Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
How Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was linked to Sligo’s cholera outbreak
The Roscommon Volunteers - The common men who freed Ireland
This Memorial Day, Irish Heritage Tree remembers those who have passed
The top ten attractions of County Offaly
How to choose which Irish instrument to learn how to play
What's your Irish County? County Meath
Five things you didn’t know about your Meath ancestors
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 3 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
- 5 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 6 Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
- 7 Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
- 8 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 9 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
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
