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.
Patrick Dooley died on the Titanic, he'd visited his dying father in Ireland
Irishman who inspired "Mary Poppins" and Roosevelt’s New Deal Program celebrated
Walking the “Belfast to Derry” and “Selma to Montgomery” trail in the name of civil rights
Was Ireland a good tourist spot in the '80s?
Patrick Andrew Collins - the Boston mayor from a farm outside Cork
Mottos of Northern Ireland counties beautifully mapped out in new illustration
Remembering the Fenians: Father Patrick McCabe, The Secret Hero
Searching for tales of my great grand uncle "The Baron of Broadway"
“We were nothing and nothing could be done for us” - an Irish Famine account
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
