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.
Read the letter JFK wrote to his alleged lover a month before he died
An emotional journey home - hunting my grandmother's grave in Galway
Genetic mapping reveals ancestry between Ireland and Scotland
On This Day: Irish WWII hero Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty was born
Muhammad Ali becomes Heavyweight Champion for the second time on this day in 1974
The fascinating history of Ché Guevara’s Irish ancestry
Top gods and goddesses from Celtic mythology
All of Ireland’s Catholic Church records available online
How the Irish came to America, from the Great Hunger to today
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: Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone was sentenced to death in 1798
On This Day: Easter Rising hero Padraig Pearse born in 1879
A year of reckoning - Irish conscription during World War I
English Spy, Irish Eye: Capt John Baxter's map of Elizabethan espionage in Ireland
The Irishman who courted Hitler: Seán Russell’s deadly gamble for freedom
Genealogy