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: First NYPD cop to die in the line of duty was an Irish immigrant
On this day: Sept 21, 1941 John F. Kennedy enters the US Navy
Irish genealogy experts partially trace Robert De Niro’s Irish roots
Irish genealogy breakthrough as more of Boston's Catholic records go online
100 years ago today, Michael Collins' The Squad was born
Over 100 Viking treasures unearthed by metal detector enthusiast
The bitter feud at the heart of future Irish President’s 1919 trip to the US
Robert De Niro is on a desperate search to find his Irish roots
Photos of JFK and Jackie Kennedy “wedding of the century”
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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
