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.
Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty who saved thousands during Second World War remembered
100-year-old photos give a glimpse of day-to-day life for Irish workers
Irish priest receives top honor in Washington for peace work in Kenya
Top ten American celebrities you may not know are Irish
Bruce Springsteen shows his Irish roots as ancestors hail from Ireland
Nine pieces of advice for those considering marrying an Irish farmer
An Irishman's guide to dating an American girl
IrishCentral Facebook contest winners plan touring around Dublin and in the North
Wexford Heritage Trail exhibits 32 historic sites across county
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
