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.
John F. Kennedy predicted his own assassination
New Galway project tells Diaspora Tribe's stories from around the world
Irish roots of “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: Johnny Depp
Sketches by JFK’s surgeon raise possibility of two assassination shooters
Armistice Day: A Belfast photographer's personal look at WWI
Remembering the "gentle revolutionary" Seamus O'Kelly 100 years after his death
One hundred years ago on Armistice Day a Donegal man escapes from Cork Gaol
Ancestry in Ireland led Tony Hawk and wife Catherine to their magical Irish wedding day
How would the Irish have survived without emigrating to the sanctuary cities of the US
Most read
- 1 Silly Irish jokes that are sure to make you laugh!
- 2 Irish blessings and prayers for funerals
- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
"Most dangerous woman in America" - Mother Jones remembered for a life of labour and defiance
Titanic hero Irishman Thomas Andrews epitomized bravery as ship went down
DNA test led a Chicago woman to find family ties to Mrs. O’Leary of the Great Fire fame
University of Galway launched digital database of Irish American emigrant letters
Genealogy