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.
Bridie (107) is the new star of the Galway Tribal Diaspora Project!
LISTEN: The first woman to receive the freedom of New York, part II
The Irish man who dug JFK’s grave and how it produced Jimmy Breslin’s “Gravedigger’s Theory”
How old was JFK when he died?
Storm dramatically reveals skeleton of 900-year-old murdered man in Ireland
Cork hunger striker the Catholic Church turned on died on this day in 1923
Remembering how Wolfe Tone's grave was saved
John F. Kennedy predicted his own assassination
New Galway project tells Diaspora Tribe's stories from around the world
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