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.
Pope John Paul's shocking comment to President of Ireland Mary McAleese
The master of Glenveagh who may have faked his own death
Feeney: The Irish last name, its meaning, origin, and most well-known faces
The Limerick man who became the mayor of Houston, Texas
Gathering tales from descendants of the Great Hunger
The murder of Cork’s first Republican Lord Mayor on this day in 1920
New trail in Massachusetts to celebrate Irish heritage on South Shore
Adopted daughter reveals 15-year secret relationship with birth mother
Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Irish around the world
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
