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.
The historic importance of the lunar eclipse and winter solstice at Newgrange
Dramatic 1916 prison letters written by Roger Casement revealed
County Cork finally get their own passport for the Gathering 2013
Emigrants' tears of joy as Irish families reunited at Dublin airport – PHOTOS
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
Most read
- 1 Save big on your dream vacation to Ireland: CIE Tours reveals Black Friday deals
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
WATCH: A look back at Dublin City in the 1990s
How a storm brought salvation to a Co Kerry community during the Great Famine
On This Day: Five brave Sullivan brothers killed on same day during WWII
The Irishman who built New York's first subway
The history behind some of Ireland's most famous symbols
Genealogy
