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.
New York Cardinal John O’Connor was the grandson of a Jewish rabbi
Irish Soldiers in the Civil War
Diamonds are an Irish girl's best friend
Fundraiser to excavate 50 murdered Irishmen at Duffy’s Cut
Ireland by the numbers: The facts and figures you thought you knew
Raise an Irish glass – and slice – to your Dad this Father’s Day
Remembering the Famine – the memorials in North America
Did the Irish priest on board the Titanic take a “selfie”?
Bridget’s Journey
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- 3 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 4 Rosie O'Donnell says Irish neighbours 'worried' for her after weight loss
- 5 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 6 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 7 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 8 Woman charged after "significant explosive device" intercepted in Co Monaghan
- 9 The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
History
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it
Navigating nationalism and neutrality: Irish-American opinion and the 1916 Rising
Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland
Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
Genealogy
