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.
Honoring the Irish poet and nationalist who died a British soldier on the Western Front
A guide to Irish names that are commonly mispronounced
The impact Viking and Norman DNA had on the Irish
The 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, by the numbers
Popular Irish baby names to use in the US
Remembering Christy Brown, the writer behind My Left Foot, 45 years after his death
Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
The most popular girl names in the US with Irish origins
Remembering the people’s Irish heroes this Labor Day
Most read
- 1 Irish Genealogy website offers free access to decades of birth, marriage and death records
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 5 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 How US textbooks fail to teach the real story of the Irish Famine
- 8 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
- 9 These Baileys Irish cream cheese swirl brownies are pure indulgence
History
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
Genealogy
