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.
Michael Collins and his Twelve Apostles --new bestseller book by Tim Pat Coogan
The Celtic Cross, then and now
The expression 'Irish Thanksgiving' is illogical, lazy
Did the Celts build "America’s Stonehenge" 4,000 years ago?
Michael Collins was a great lover as well as a fearsome fighter
Italian boxers took Irish names to deter discrimination
Too few Americans visit our war dead: Remembering US involvement in WWI
Adopted siblings travel to Ireland to sadly discover their mothers have passed away
How speaking Irish saved my life on the run from United Arab Emirates police
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 Explore the island of Ireland with IrishCentral's interactive map
- 7 Donald Trump at Doonbeg: what’s happening on the final day of his visit
- 8 How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
- 9 On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
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
