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.
Who were the Black Irish, and what is their story?
The real-life “Jaws” - New Jersey shark attacks in 1916
Dublin Magdalene Laundry closed in 1996 could be a museum to women and children who suffered
Tickets now available to discover your history at The Genealogy Event in New York
Exciting new documentary on Irish rebel Seán Mac Diarmada available to view for free
Irish dancer Bridget Oei named runner-up in Miss America 2018 pageant
Why this British actor chose to raise his children around "Irish wit and humanity"
A second hand pair of trousers and two Popes
Was this Irish spy the inspiration for James Bond’s ‘M?’
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
