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.
Ireland's war: Life during the Emergency
Traditional Irish naming patterns
The special love-hate relationship between Irish and Italian Americans
Is Ireland's oldest business Sean’s Bar from 900AD? Some disagree
The Irish woman who worked as a nanny for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis
Trinity launch conference and online course for 1916 Rising centenary (PHOTOS & VIDEO)
From Galway Bay to Taxi-ing down the Thames... Irishmen in the Waterman Records
Tracing your Irish roots: The quagmire of administrative districts - part 2
What are the most egotistical Irish names?
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- 4 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 5 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
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- 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: 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
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
Genealogy