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.
Michael Collins' close call - his escape across a Dublin rooftop
Irish Australian outlaw Ned Kelly's famous armor
Why has there only been two Catholic US Presidents - JFK and Joe Biden?
How was Newgrange built? Archaeologists long boat discovery could shed some light
Richard Nixon's connection to a small town in County Kildare
This month in history: Suffragette Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington born in Co Cork
Top ghost sightings in Ireland
Genealogists petition for early release of 1926 Irish census
Newly discovered Irish American who raised the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II
Most read
- 1 What does "amadán" mean?
- 2 The Dublin spots featured in James Joyce's "Ulysses"
- 3 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 4 The top five tourist attractions in County Meath
- 5 How this North American couple discovered their ancestors on their Irish honeymoon
- 6 The top twenty books every Irish American should read
- 7 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Joyce clan
- 8 How James Joyce came to be revered in Trieste, Italy
- 9 Top "Father Ted" filming locations in Ireland
History
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
How James Joyce came to be revered in Trieste, Italy
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Joyce clan
Profiles in Pride: Declan Flynn, a death that changed Ireland
Michael Malloy - the Irishman in The Bronx that could not be murdered
Genealogy