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.
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
National Famine Commemoration Day - Irish Great Hunger memorials to visit
Watch JFK explode at Air Force general over Tom Price-type scandal
Irish domestic lives in New York tenements explored at Great Hunger Museum
Glasgow memorial to Irish Great Hunger deemed offensive
Kennedy Book and Research Archive launched in Wexford
New York's Irish Famine Memorial is closed down AGAIN
Most read
- 1 Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
- 2 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 3 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 4 "No Welcome for Trump" - Dublin and Doonbeg protests set for US President's visit
- 5 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 6 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
- 7 Artist Paul Henry's thoughts on the enchanting West of Ireland
- 8 Explore the island of Ireland with IrishCentral's interactive map
- 9 Remote Irish beach crowned top beauty spot for autumn escape
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
