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.
Seven hard-won lessons from searching for my Irish ancestors
The Battle of Waterloo and the Irish
Remembering the Irish role in the Battle of Waterloo
How Bennett Cerf got James Joyce’s Ulysses, the ultimate banned book, into the US
Campaign calls for London museum to return Irish giant’s stolen bones
Extraordinary story of Titanic’s second officer Charles Herbert Lightroller
Meet the US cop who found his long-lost Irish mother through a DNA test
75th D-Day anniversary - Irish WWII vets remember
Beautiful spots in Ireland that every tourist should visit
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 2 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 3 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 4 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 5 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 6 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 7 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 8 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 9 President Michael D. Higgins accuses Israel of leaking his Iran letter
History
An Irish General's incendiary proposal: Let Blacks fight for the Confederacy
WATCH: 75 years after, an eye-witness to the 1916 Easter Rising tells her story
Albert Cashier, the woman who fought as a man for the Union
From Shannon to Dallas: A virtual journey through JFK’s final weeks
John Francis ‘Honey Fitz’ Fitzgerald – founder of the Kennedy political dynasty
Genealogy
