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.
Wise words of wisdom from an Irish Mammy
New details on an Irish-born Black and Tan who was executed by British
Kinsale hosts Come Home for Your Tea Party for The Gathering 2013
“Elvis and Ireland” explore the life and career of the rock legend along with his Irish influences and connections
Genealogy course announced for County Monaghan Diaspora visiting for The Gathering
The best Irish wit, wisdom and sayings about Mother’s Day
The perfect Mother's Day treat: Bailey’s Irish nut coffee bars
Irish schoolchildren to mark Great Famine with a minute of silence
Handwritten Oscar Wilde poem “Heart's Yearnings” sells at auction for $104,000
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- 1 Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 5 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 6 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 7 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 8 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 9 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
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
