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.
Did you know Robert Emmet, executed on this day in 1803, has a D.C. park named after him?
George Washington’s greatest sniper was an Irish marksman
All these years later, JFK still inspires
How the Irish Union soldiers stopped Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, this anniversary day
Did you know Canada became one country because of Fenian invasion?
Cloudy weather could have caused Celts' red hair
Bones of 5,000-year-old Stone Age child and adult found in Irish cave
How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
New online project will map out every ancient hill fort in Ireland
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
On This Day: Iconic Irish writer William Butler Yeats died in 1939
The "Bad Bridgets" - forgotten Famine era single pregnant women who fled to America
How Brigid went from a Celtic goddess to Catholic saint
Dublin Holocaust survivor lost 35 family members in World War II
Ireland's little-known Mermaid Saint
Genealogy
