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 Irish Potato Famine, the Great Hunger, genocide - what should we call it?
Ghosts are regulars at America’s most haunted Irish pub
First major Irish exhibition on Oscar Wilde launched at Trinity College
Did the Irish Famine trigger mental illness in the Irish?
The famous Chicago May, Irish Queen of crooks
Ireland’s Loch Ness monster resurfaced after 147 years
An inconvenient truth: Queen Victoria was welcomed by the Irish during the Famine
The fight to remember Irish-born American heroes, Patrick Sheahan and Patrick Gallagher
A wise Irish saying to end procrastination
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 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 8 Woman charged after "significant explosive device" intercepted in Co Monaghan
- 9 The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
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
