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 surprising American stars with Irish roots
Burned at the stake was the original punishment for blasphemy in Ireland
John F. Kennedy Jr. had a playdate with a killer
Irish American women who changed the United States
Crazy Irish stories! The Irish man who stole the Crown Jewels to a real-life Robinson Crusoe
In Ireland, the county you are from is of vital importance
The Irish War Cry and what it meant to the Celtic tribes in battle
Would you try ‘Bog butter’ from 3,000 BC?
Former First Lady Michelle Obama's ancestral link to an Irish slave owner
Most read
- 1 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 2 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 3 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 4 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 5 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 6 Summer takes a time-out! Cooler rainy days are on the way
- 7 The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
- 8 2027 inflation 'will be higher than forecast', warns Bank of Ireland
- 9 New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland
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