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.
JFK's legacy remembered on the anniversary of his assassination
How 155 Irish soldiers became heroes at the Battle of Jadotville
On this day: President JFK lifts naval blockade on Cuba
The Irish soldier who witnessed President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
How to discover if your family was in the Irish military
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No guns for the IRA? No problem!
Harry Connick Jr. Irish roots revealed and he thinks they are "so cool"
Why one Spanish region stormed the British Consul General during Irish War of Independence
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
Greatest quotes from and about Michael Collins
A tale of two famous Michaels, both born in Co Cork in the autumn of 1890
The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
Who killed Michael Collins? Questions still linger
The incredible life Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s 16th century pirate queen
Genealogy
