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 Burren, County Clare - 300 million years in the making
In Focus: Louise Sullivan Potorti - co-founder of Beara Irish Brewing in New Hampshire
"Paddywagon" name for pub leads to appeal to Tampa mayor to shut it
Reenactment of ‘Battle of Vinegar Hill’ set for historic Enniscorthy location
The top ten worst Irish compliments
The origins of Notre Dame’s name - why the Fighting Irish are the Fighting Irish
Celtic origins of Irish now disputed by new DNA results - POLL
Cliffs of Moher may lose out as new 7th Wonder of the World
US tourist said she captured image of Jesus on Cliffs of Moher
Most read
- 1 Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 4 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 5 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 "No Welcome for Trump" - Dublin and Doonbeg protests set for US President's visit
- 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: John Barry, the Irish "Father of the American Navy," dies in 1803
Expert Irish genealogy group publishes new guide to Irish Civil Registration
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
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
Genealogy
