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.
Ghosts of the Irish Famine immigrants haunt Montreal's streets
During WWII, a medium convinced the US Minister to Ireland that de Valera secretly sided with Germany
A century after his death, Wexford still reveres this Irish rebel
Create the perfect memorial for your loved one by learning about their Irish roots
One Irish baby name has topped the US charts for 44 years in the past century
Seeking love, hundreds from China and Japan flock to Irish matchmaking festival
Does Pope Francis know the greatest Irish Catholic priest of all time?
Northern Ireland's first civil rights march was held 50 years ago today
Did a young American woman steal Oscar Wilde’s heart?
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 "No Welcome for Trump" - Dublin and Doonbeg protests set for US President's visit
- 8 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 9 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
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
