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.
Why DNA tests show different levels of Irish ancestry among family members
How a John F Kennedy impersonator lost his livelihood after tragic assassination
Irish-born cowboys were the fastest guns in the west once upon a time
Archaeologists search Montreal construction site for mass grave of Irish famine victims
LISTEN: The Great Famine podcast series – the Irish rebel Anne Devlin
Bid to end discrimination against Irish surnames with apostrophes by O'Leary family
Uncovering your Irish ancestor’s secrets online
CIA director John McCone covered up JFK assassination truth
An Irish cop arrested Lee Harvey Oswald a year before JFK’s assassination
Most read
- 1 US Embassy warns of "unintended consequences" as Ireland bans goods from Israeli settlements
- 2 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 3 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 4 Rosie O'Donnell says Irish neighbours 'worried' for her after weight loss
- 5 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 6 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 7 Mayo vs Kerry: All you need to know for Sunday's All Ireland Senior Football final
- 8 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 9 Irish American killed in 9/11 honored in new GAA Museum exhibit
History
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it
Navigating nationalism and neutrality: Irish-American opinion and the 1916 Rising
Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland
Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
Genealogy
