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.
Letters of a family to their son in America after the Famine
A deceitful life: a Nazi’s treason and life as an Irish impostor
Evidence shows Amelia Earhart and her Irish American navigator may have survived crash
Tragic lives of wife and children of Easter Rising martyr Thomas MacDonagh
Did you know Robert Emmet, executed on this day in 1803, has a D.C. park named after him?
George Washington’s greatest sniper was an Irish marksman
All these years later, JFK still inspires
How the Irish Union soldiers stopped Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, this anniversary day
Did you know Canada became one country because of Fenian invasion?
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
On This Day: William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize in 1923
The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
On This Day: Five brave Sullivan brothers killed on same day during WWII
Lance-Corporal Michael O’Leary, a true Irish WWI hero
Family historians urged to check out 1911 census
Genealogy
