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.
When an American student found a 12th century Irish brooch on a Galway Beach
Diary of an Irish rebel fighting in the 1916 Easter Rising
Michael Collins' secret - who was in charge of the "Twelve Apostles" hit squad?
How England feared the Irish would take over Australia after Easter Rising
Irish last names increasingly popular as first names in America
Rhode Island woman's quest uncovers hundreds of Irish Famine graves
Public have their say over design of historic Irish monument in Vancouver
“Growing up in Ireland, I scraped my black skin hoping to be white”
Irish priest remembers role in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberation
Most read
- 1 Cobblestone Cottage: Stay in an authentic Irish cottage in Donegal
- 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
On This Day: Willie Clancy, Irish piper and folklorist, died in 1973
Ancient Sheela na Gigs, Irish statues of women exposing themselves, explained
On This Day: Arthur Guinness, founder of the Dublin brewery, died in 1803
On This Day: Queen Victoria, Ireland's "Famine Queen," died in 1901
Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising
Genealogy
