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.
A shopkeeper’s concern and memories of old customers in rural Ireland
Amazing 89-year-old man who won't let Irish Americans forget the Famine
Most popular baby names in Ireland 2017 revealed
Magic Halloween spells from the White Witch of Cobh
How an Irish-born great-great-grandfather came to fight in the US Civil War
The top Irish Halloween scary spirits - a terrifying bunch
"The best left" - Irish emigrants and those who remained to pick up the pieces
Boston's Fenway Park - home to GAA, hurling, and freedom
Could these Irish names become extinct due to current trends?
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
