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.
When 30,000 attended a Fenian Irish picnic in New York City in 1865
The Irish duo who murdered 16 people and sold the cadavers
Reinventing a classic - Irish coffee toffee recipe
How do you pronounce Liam? American nurse shocked to learn one unique way
Ways you know you grew up in the Irish countryside
WATCH: American gobsmacked by Irish sport of hurling in 1920s film
Last chance to win: This Celtic women's group will plant a native tree in Ireland in your honor
The top Irish inventions that changed the world
WATCH: The Irish punks, skinheads and skaboys of Dublin, 1980
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 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 6 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 7 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 8 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
- 9 Artist Paul Henry's thoughts on the enchanting West of Ireland
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
