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.
O’Donovan Rossa’s battle of wills revealed in crime records
How the Irish helped to win the American Revolution
Oldest ever Irish person bids farewell after 113 years 140 days (PHOTOS)
Catholic parish registers in Ireland from 1740s on published online today
Celebration of Irish who built the world’s major cities comes to New York and Chicago (VIDEO)
Did you have family who boarded the Titanic from Cobh? Tell their story
A century of Irish history goes online in posters, pamphlets and diaries (PHOTOS)
Irish family history from ashes to archives: Free access to National Archive records
The organized criminal underworld in historical Dublin
Most read
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- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
JFK and Jackie's baby son lived just 39 hours and went on to save millions
Halloween is Ireland's greatest gift to the world and it all began with Samhain
"Danny Boy" is Ireland's most famous ballad but an English lawyer wrote the words
The ancient Irish alphabet read from the bottom up and still carved into stone
Arabella Kennedy was stillborn 70 years ago and her grave reads simply daughter
Genealogy
