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.
Gorgeous Celtic crosses inspired by history
Children killed in 1916 Easter Rising finally remembered with commemorative garden
Bloomsday is James Joyce's St. Patrick's Day for summer
Who are the most famous O’Neills?
Remarkable footage shows Queen honoring JFK at his UK memorial
Celebrating the Irish tricolor this National Flag Day
Calls to memorialize newly identified Irish famine victims in Canada
The US-born Irish abortionist found guilty of murder in 1950s Dublin
Search for relatives of Irish WWI hero comes to an end
Most read
- 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
