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.
The only known painting of The Great Hunger to come to US
Top Irish Archbishop asks for “no glorification” for Easter 1916
The American dollar sign was created – accidentally – by a bankrupt Irishman
Ireland during 1916 and in present day 2016 (VIDEO)
Findmypast is free this weekend!
Our Irish ancestors: How they had fun in New York City
New graphic novel tells the story of Ireland’s Great Hunger (VIDEO)
Online exhibitions will bring people and untold stories of 1916 Rising characters to life
Inspiration and pride of tracing my Irish roots and visiting Ireland (PHOTOS)
Most read
- 1 "Green Friday" is here! Save 15% off popular vacations to Ireland with CIE Tours
- 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
When a 105-year-old letter to Santa Claus was found in a Dublin home
WATCH: Fall in love with vintage yet vibrant Derry in this 1968 travelogue
JFK's Irish funeral guard recall his death and burial 61 years ago
Discovering the Irish in the American Civil War: A Unique Online History Course
Catholic Ireland's tradition of the Station Mass, a rural farm's incredible 1960s prep
Genealogy
