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.
Sketches by JFK’s surgeon raise possibility of two assassination shooters
Armistice Day: A Belfast photographer's personal look at WWI
Remembering the "gentle revolutionary" Seamus O'Kelly 100 years after his death
One hundred years ago on Armistice Day a Donegal man escapes from Cork Gaol
Ancestry in Ireland led Tony Hawk and wife Catherine to their magical Irish wedding day
How would the Irish have survived without emigrating to the sanctuary cities of the US
1,000-year-old miraculous Saint Patrick’s bell goes on display
75-year-old Irish grandma, daughter and grandchild attend same US university
Thousands of new Irish family records added to research database
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- 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
