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.
Irish Australian outlaw Ned Kelly's famous armor
Why JFK and Biden remain America's only two Catholic presidents
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
Honor your Irish Ancestor and bring their name back home to Ireland
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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
