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.
Priceless Celtic brooch discovered by chance in British Museum storeroom
A New Year, a new IrishCentral (VIDEO)
Katherine Plunket was formerly the longest living Irish person ever
Happy 113th birthday to the longest living person in Ireland's history
Singing astronaut Chris Hadfield to be Irish tourism ambassador (VIDEO)
Shedding no tears for the decline of the bigoted, elitist WASP colony
Ireland’s history through the lens of Limerick cycling photographer (PHOTOS)
Are Irish redheads more flexible than others? (VIDEO)
1903 Kerry shipwreck displaced by storm will be protected say authorities
Most read
- 1 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 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
- 7 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 8 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
- 9 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
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
