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.
Cork-born Mother Jones, the "most dangerous woman in America," inspired James Connolly
The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
History of Irish emigration: its tragedies and what we should embrace and celebrate
JFK's 1945 article on De Valera and reuniting Ireland
The infamous murder of an Irish beauty, Colleen Bawn
Remembering Tom Crean, the Co Kerry ice man
WATCH: US travel documentary from 1934 gives glimpse of Ireland
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it
Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
Famine in an Irish town – how Dingle survived the Great Hunger
Most read
- 1 WATCH: These epic Irish dancing fails are absolutely hilarious
- 2 The "P.S. I Love You" filming locations you can visit in Ireland
- 3 Ireland's most popular counties and their top attractions
- 4 Police learn where Glen Hansard spent final hours between Wren’s Nest and fatal crash
- 5 Gardaí believe Glen Hansard lost control of bike before fatal crash
- 6 First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
- 7 Irish politicians trying to ensure Trump stays away from parliament – and a Connolly clash
- 8 WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
- 9 This very Irish habit is apparently the secret to a longer life
History
On This Day: Thomas Francis Meagher, the greatest Irishman in American history, was born
On This Day: Easter Rising rebel Sir Roger Casement was executed in Britain
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
WATCH: Poignant short Irish film shows the reality of living in rural Ireland in 1974
WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
Genealogy
