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.
First Great Hunger grave markers for New York unmarked graves
Blueshirts, Irish pro-fascist party, recalled in sale of rare uniform
Danny Boy! Mets sensation Daniel Murphy is close to his Irish roots
Our Irish name’s history exposed and shamed
Petition launched to officially re-name Irish Famine “The Great Hunger”
Ireland’s Minister for Arts tours New Brunswick for International Famine Commemoration
No Irish Need Apply debate continues in the UK
Limerick Museum calls on public in search for 1916 Easter Rising treasures (PHOTOS)
From Dingle to Washington DC: Irish American sculptor Jerome Connor
Most read
- 1 Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 5 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 6 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 7 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 8 "No Welcome for Trump" - Dublin and Doonbeg protests set for US President's visit
- 9 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
History
On This Day: John Barry, the Irish "Father of the American Navy," dies in 1803
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
The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
Genealogy
