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 1916 commemoration for British soldiers remembered my own relative
Inquest into 1974 Birmingham pub IRA bombings to be reopened
Montreal’s Irish fight for memorial to the 6,000 famine immigrants who died of typhus
Descendants of Irishmen killed in mining disaster 150 years ago search for answers
The infamous story of the Armagh woman who was buried alive
4,800-year-old Newgrange bone leads to theory on how dogs were domesticated
Exploring the life of an Irish railroad family at the Baltimore Shrine to the Immigrant Irish
NI Police colluded with Loyalist killers of six Catholics watching World Cup
Twenty-two pounds of 2,000-year-old bog butter unearthed in Co. Meath
Most read
- 1 Famous film and TV locations in Ireland you can actually visit
- 2 Irish famine emigrant's emotional letter home to Mom and Dad in 1850
- 3 Remembering Countess Markievicz, the rebel who died 99 years ago today
- 4 Kerry mourns Jamey Carney as Taoiseach condemns "filthy" online abuse against murdered New Yorker
- 5 Saints, sailors, distilleries and demesnes, County Offaly has it all
- 6 WATCH: What did "new look" fashion look like in 1970s Ireland?
- 7 Behind the name: Róisín, the perfect choice for your "little rose"
- 8 Antrim tragedy: Deaths of girl, 8, and two adults being treated as a murder-suicide
- 9 Meet the artists behind Ireland's first vermouth, now landing in America
History
The Leitrim orphan girl who became New Orleans' "Mother of Orphans"
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it.
Irish famine emigrant's emotional letter home to Mom and Dad in 1850
Remembering Countess Markievicz, the rebel who died 99 years ago today
Behind the name: Róisín, the perfect choice for your "little rose"
Genealogy
