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.
The strange history of the Nazi plans to invade Ireland
Irish slave owner's role in illegal slave trafficking in 1860 explored in Netflix documentary
How Theodore Roosevelt made Irish hero Cuchulainn popular again
Discovery of Irish airman lost at sea during the Second World War
The terrible traumas of Ted Kennedy plus his greatest victories revealed in new book
JFK may have had gay experiences with friend claims biographer
Did JFK's Irish driver cause his death?
Boy George "sad and proud" of his ancestor, a famed executed IRA man
Read the letter JFK wrote to his alleged lover a month before he died
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- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
Tea drinking in Ireland was once viewed as "reckless and uncontrollable"
How to celebrate the Summer Solstice the Irish way
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin
How Irish American US General Philip Sheridan paved the way for Juneteenth
The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland
Genealogy
