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.
Rivalry between Pádraig Pearse and Douglas Hyde came to a head 100 years ago
“No Irish Need Apply” signs found by readers from US to Australia
Did your ancestor attend Dublin’s military school?
Easter Rising 1916 - how it was reported at the time
Vatican chief astronomer believes in UFOs and aliens
Why learn Irish? Gaeilge students of North America give their answers
1916 Rising photos never before seen released for centenary
70 million people claim Irish ancestry, only 3,000 have paid for proof
Why “No Irish Need Apply” truth is so important for Irish America
Most read
- 1 Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 4 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 5 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 "No Welcome for Trump" - Dublin and Doonbeg protests set for US President's visit
- 8 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 9 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
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
