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.
JFK's 1945 article on De Valera and reuniting Ireland
Secrets about the Kennedy family you didn’t know
Role of the Irish defenders at the Alamo is almost forgotten
Ireland’s Cú Chulainn was a Mayan god too
WATCH: Ellis Island - The gateway that welcomed 3.5 million Irish to America
Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe affair confirmed by letter
Tracing Lindsay Lohan’s Irish roots
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin
The strange history of the Nazi plans to invade Ireland
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
Guy Fawkes was killed trying to restore a Catholic to British throne
On This Day: Richard Nixon elected president of the United States in 1968
National Love Your Red Hair Day: Maureen O'Hara and the most famous redheads in history
As important as Newgrange or Tara - an ancient Irish site you’ve never heard of
"Bad Bridget" film adaptation in the works from "Kneecap" director
Genealogy
