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.
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Under pressure Trump White House releases Irish American Heritage Month proclamation
An Irishwoman was blamed for starting the Great Chicago Fire
An American journalist reports from Ireland during the Famine
How an Irish doctor survived WWII, captivity and the Atomic Bomb
Heartbreaking artwork depicting Great Hunger coffin ships now on display
I took my 80-year-old mother to Ireland to see the castles our ancestors built
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
Brendan Behan discovers New York City
On This Day, the man behind "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," Ernest Ball was born
Can you help identify this man in colorized video of 1920s Ireland?
How the illegitimate son of a Sligo man became the father of Chilean independence
WATCH: A rare look at Belfast in the 1920s
Genealogy
