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.
Could your ancestor have been an orphan workhouse girl who emigrated in 1853?
In forgotten famine of 1879 Irish Americans aided relief efforts
The Irish took sides in the Spanish Civil War
Secret tunnels used for testing machine guns by Michael Collins revealed
Easter Rising’s influence on Irish American culture to be examined at UMass
Hidden history: Anglo-Indian branches in an Irish family tree
5,800-year-old rock scribing found near Ireland’s Croagh Patrick
Why Ireland owes Irish America a huge amount
Thirty-two years of heinous crimes in 19th century Ireland go online
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
Mick the Miller: The most successful greyhound of all time
WATCH: Joan Baez's haunting version of "Carrickfergus" in 1989
Remembering the Clancy Brothers on the anniversary of Tom's death
Guy Fawkes was killed trying to restore a Catholic to British throne
On This Day: Richard Nixon elected president of the United States in 1968
Genealogy
