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.
Memoir of Irish Australian cellist who refused to play Rule Britannia is Book of the Month
Irish 96-year-old twins who married cousins are still best friends
Young JFK called Hitler "stuff of which legends are made" in old diary
Did your Irish relative serve in World War II? This group wants to hear from you
On This Day: President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest
Happy birthday, John F Kennedy Jr - what you should know about JFK’s son
On This Day: Jack Ruby shoots JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
JFK and Jackie insulted Queen Elizabeth at royal dinner
Remembering the Irishmen who fought for the Confederates during the Civil War
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
