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.
The Battle of Waterloo and the Irish
Remembering the Irish role in the Battle of Waterloo
How Bennett Cerf got James Joyce’s Ulysses, the ultimate banned book, into the US
Campaign calls for London museum to return Irish giant’s stolen bones
Extraordinary story of Titanic’s second officer Charles Herbert Lightroller
Meet the US cop who found his long-lost Irish mother through a DNA test
75th D-Day anniversary - Irish WWII vets remember
Beautiful spots in Ireland that every tourist should visit
Remembering the Easter Rising hero James Connolly on his birthday
Most read
- 1 Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 5 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 6 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 7 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 8 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 9 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
History
On This Day: John Barry, the Irish "Father of the American Navy," dies in 1803
Expert Irish genealogy group publishes new guide to Irish Civil Registration
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
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
Genealogy
