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.
385-million-year-old footprints in Co Kerry represent turning point in evolution
On This Day: Playwright Eugene O'Neill passed away in 1953
Busboy who cradled dying Robert F Kennedy in his arms still struggles
Conor McGregor and Kim Kardashian are distantly related, ancestry searches reveal
This Irish genealogy group can help you trace your family roots
On This Day: Robert F. Kennedy dies after being shot the night prior in 1968
The amazing story of Eliza Lynch, the Irish ‘Queen of Paraguay’
Galway Boat Project works to restore the historic Galway Hookers
Michael Collins’ Jewish Fenian - the indispensable Michael Noyk
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
