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 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
After 1950s forced adoption New Yorker is reunited with his Irish mother
When a 2,600-year-old Celtic princess was discovered in Germany
Maura Murray: Still missing after 13 long years
Knock Blessed Virgin visionary to be reburied at old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NY
Britain’s Prince Charles has ancestral links to Brian Boru and Kilkenny
Grave of Irish man captured in France during World War I discovered
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 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 5 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
- 6 Artist Paul Henry's thoughts on the enchanting West of Ireland
- 7 Explore the island of Ireland with IrishCentral's interactive map
- 8 Donald Trump at Doonbeg: what’s happening on the final day of his visit
- 9 How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
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