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.
Famine in an Irish town – how Dingle survived the Great Hunger
The Dearg Dur - the origin story of the Waterford legend
What's your Irish County? County Westmeath
Celebrating the Irish who fought in the US Civil War this Memorial Day
Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
How the illegitimate son of a Sligo man became the father of Chilean independence
What's your Irish County? County Sligo
How Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was linked to Sligo’s cholera outbreak
The Roscommon Volunteers - The common men who freed Ireland
Most read
- 1 Book launch of "Rockin’ the Bronx" by Larry Kirwan coming to New York Irish Center
- 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
Free and useful Irish genealogy websites to assist in your family history search
Why Easter is such an important holiday to the Irish
On This Day: Bram Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," dies in 1912
On This Day: Ireland's last legal execution is conducted in 1954
The men onboard the Titanic who gave up their lives to save women and children
Genealogy
