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 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
50 years ago today, Mary Jo Kopechne died in Ted Kennedy’s car at Chappaquiddick
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- 2 Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day reporter who re-invented journalism
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- 4 Billionaire Peter Thiel's group takes legal action over axed Powerscourt conference
- 5 The important Irish American news stories that made history
- 6 Have you got one? Rare Irish coin now worth a staggering €15,000
- 7 Odds reveal three favourites for 2026 Rose of Tralee
- 8 250th Anniversary of America: Recognizing the Irish and New Jersey
- 9 Ireland announces €125 million package of bilateral support to Ukraine
History
The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
Famine in an Irish town – how Dingle survived the Great Hunger
250th Anniversary of America: Recognizing the Irish and New Jersey
Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day reporter who re-invented journalism
Wicklow's Military Road, built to capture a rebel captain
Genealogy
