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.
The legacy of Ireland's Catholic Church-run Mother and Baby Homes
Top ten songs for your Mayo vs Dublin All-Ireland party (VIDEOS)
Reenactment of evictions pays tribute to Great Hunger emigrants to Canada
Rory and Ted Kennedy recall their family history in Wexford
In Focus: Tara O’Grady, Irish American singer songwriter from Queens
Mullaghmore, Sligo, named by Lonely Planet as top surfing spot
Nine U.S. states have more Irish percentage population than any others
“Good ‘Ol Freda” follows Dubliner’s ten years with the Beatles (VIDEO)
Did you know these Superheroes were Irish?
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
