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.
On This Day: Thomas Francis Meagher, the greatest Irishman in American history, was born
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
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
Most read
- 1 Ten Irish movies folks in America watch around St. Patrick’s Day
- 2 The Irish who dug the tunnels for New York’s subway system
- 3 Maureen O’Hara’s marriages and loves: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- 4 The Irish Olympian who scaled a flagpole to defy Britain
- 5 WATCH: Giant’s Causeway "secret doorway" caught on camera
- 6 The top movies filmed along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way
- 7 What's your Irish County? County Kilkenny
- 8 Bono raises eyebrows with odd moment at Hansard funeral
- 9 WATCH: Vintage Irish tourism video shows off the best bits of Ireland
History
WATCH: Vintage Irish tourism video shows off the best bits of Ireland
Remembering Daniel O’Connell's final tragic plea to save Ireland from Famine on his anniversary
Following ancient footsteps through the Boyne Valley
The Irish who dug the tunnels for New York’s subway system
Some of the most popular Irish surnames in the US, explained
Genealogy
