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 bravery of the Grey Nuns of Montreal during Ireland's Great Hunger
An Irish poet in America recalls the dark secrets of her youth
Where Ireland’s 1916 Rising is being commemorated around the US
Melting pot President New Yorker Eamon DeValera
United Irish Counties launches 1916 book
1916 wasn’t just big in Ireland
Irish government launches website detailing 1916 compensations
Is anyone else tired of the second coming of the 1916 Rising?
WATCH: Incredible newsreel shows Derry boy singing for a Canadian soldier in 1945
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
