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.
John F. Kennedy Gravesite reopens at Arlington National Cemetery
1943 - Navy Destroyer USS The Sullivans is commissioned
Richie Neal's Irish roots and American political career
New research reveals Irish explorer Tom Crean’s journey along America’s coast
Former US Vice President Mike Pence's strong Irish roots
Wiggins Patch Massacre - the savage murder of two Irish emigrants in Pennsylvania
O'Neills launch retro range of iconic GAA jerseys
What’s your favorite Irish name?
IrishCentral’s Book of the Month: “The Hungry Road” by Marita Conlon-McKenna
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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
