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.
From our shore to your door - The IrishCentral Box launches!
Embracing your Irish heritage - how to get started finding your Irish roots
First major English-Irish dictionary in 60 years released
Oldest Irish settlement in Australia found on rural paddock
On This Day: Oliver Plunkett was canonized, becoming the first new Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
IrishCentral readers’ favorite Irish names for boys or girls
The truths behind some spooky urban legends for Halloween
New study provides "faint glimmer of hope" that Fungie is still alive
Historic Medieval manuscript donated to University College Cork
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- 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
