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.
On This Day: John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States
An Clár/Clare: Cad as a dtagann an t-ainm sin?
On This Day: Cork-born venerable Mary Aikenhead born in 1787
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Walsh Clan
Mum gave son name that celebrates his "Irish heritage" but can’t pronounce it
The Irish American woman who became America's first supermodel
On This Day: Prohibition takes effect in the US in 1919
What does the apostrophe in Irish names mean?
WATCH: Vintage footage of First Holy Communion in 1930s Ireland
Most read
- 1 What you should know about Bronwyn Fitzsimons, Maureen O’Hara’s daughter
- 2 WATCH: These epic Irish dancing fails are absolutely hilarious
- 3 The top Irish filming locations from "The Banshees of Inisherin"
- 4 Police learn where Glen Hansard spent final hours between Wren’s Nest and fatal crash
- 5 Ireland's most popular counties and their top attractions
- 6 Irish politicians trying to ensure Trump stays away from parliament – and a Connolly clash
- 7 The ginormous legacy – and modest fortune – Glen Hansard leaves behind
- 8 First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
- 9 WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
History
When the Blasket Islanders were evacuated to mainland in 1953
On This Day: Thomas Francis Meagher, the greatest Irishman in American history, was born
On This Day: Easter Rising rebel Sir Roger Casement was executed in Britain
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
WATCH: Poignant short Irish film shows the reality of living in rural Ireland in 1974
Genealogy
