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.
On This Day: Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., JFK's older brother, is born in 1915
The IRA Chief of Staff who was “unbought, unconquered, and unpurchasable to the last”
Toronto honors doctor for compassion shown to Irish Great Hunger emigrants
Irishwoman the British could not contain whose name has faded from history
The remarkable story of John Keegan Casey, the bold Fenian boy
Early IRA ambushes in War of Independence were ill-equipped but successful
Stick fighting and the origins of the Shillelagh
Shocking murder of a 15-year-old Fianna Boy Scout 100 years ago
These US astronauts all have roots in Ireland
Most read
- 1 Ten little known facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 2 Oh, Lisdoonvarna... is a town unlike any other in Ireland
- 3 Documentary reveals incredible colorized footage of the Titanic
- 4 Places in Ireland that can change your life
- 5 Top magical caves to explore in Ireland
- 6 On This Day: The US Civil War begins in 1861
- 7 First oil tankers leave Whitegate as Gardaí clash with protestors at the site
- 8 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
- 9 On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
History
On This Day: Handel's "Messiah" premiered in Fishamble Street, Dublin
On his birthday, Samuel Beckett’s Nobel Prize still speaks to modern Ireland
Ten little known facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
On his birthday, Seamus Heaney’s Nobel win still resonates across Ireland and beyond
The dazzling life of Mabelle Gilman Corey
Genealogy
