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.
How Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination inspired RFK's greatest speech
Ireland’s first astronaut? Mayo woman continues training in US
Birth “backlash” politics - the assassinations, riots and war protests of 1968
Selling my parents’ Co. Clare tavern where all the Irish music greats played
From the Great Blasket to America - a memoir of the longest surviving islander
“Your father has gone to look after Patrick:” How JFK Jr and Caroline’s nanny broke news of JFK’s death
Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel has witnessed key events in Ireland's history
Churchill wanted Irish bombed from the air, refused Michael Collins' plea
Test yourself with these top census statistics, facts and figures about Ireland
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
