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 Cork man hanged in the Wild West for the famous Bisbee Massacre
Scotland’s first ever Irish Famine memorial sculptor chosen
A commemorative coin celebrates 100 years of Irish women's votes
Why has Ireland not yet honored its greatest Antarctic Hero?
60 lottery winners will witness Winter Solstice sunrise at Newgrange
Is Irish American Conan O’Brien related to Bog Bodies ancient King of Ireland?
Patriot grave: How forensic experts matched 1916 leader’s family DNA in order to identify him
5,000-year-old logboat found by fisherman in River Boyne
Jackie’s secret agent shares memories of JFK’s assassination
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 "No Welcome for Trump" - Dublin and Doonbeg protests set for US President's visit
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
