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.
The grandson of an Irish Nationalist who became one of NYC's youngest mayors
British murder of pregnant Irish mother highlighted in new radio documentary
The unexpected place where some of Jackie Kennedy’s wardrobe went after her death
A young Irish patriot dies - rebel Ireland fights on
The tragic murder of 15-year-old Cailín Bán
When a Rolling Stones 1965 concert in Dublin turned into a riot
Sharon Osbourne discovers ancestors fled Irish Famine, emigrated to US
Jackie was offered $1m not to divorce JFK before presidential election
LISTEN: "Ciumhais Carraig Aonair" - a haunting Irish tune inspired by Fastnet Rock
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- 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
