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 English military barracks that became a source of peace in Northern Ireland
Faces of the Titanic: Irishman Jeremiah Burke sent a message in a bottle before his death
Titanic survivor's indignant letter fetches thousands at Boston auction
John Le Carré, Britain's most famous spy writer, died an Irishman
IrishCentral’s Book of the Month: “A Star Called Henry” by Roddy Doyle
Woman launches search for Irish granny who vanished in 1960 London
True story of China's Titanic survivors heads for theaters
A 16-foot Celtic Cross in Boston Harbor honors the Irish Famine dead
DNA test uncovers century-old secret for woman who thought she was Irish
Most read
- 1 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 4 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 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 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 8 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
- 9 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
History
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
Genealogy
