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.
Looted Bronze Age treasure trove of 900 coins and weapons returned from Britain
Irish Consul General Noel Kilkenny and historian Christine Kinealy discuss the Great Hunger at Rochester ‘Irish Gathering’
Scientists pinpoint organism which caused Ireland’s devastating 1845 potato blight
Thousands of Great Hunger victims died in Staten Island quarantine
Irish dance and sci-fi - Alan Kenefick choreographs Prodijig’s new show “Footstorm” - VIDEOS
Kennedy Leadership Forum Launched for JFK50 in New Ross, County Wexford
Ring of Cork Festival showcases community spirit for the Gathering
Descendants of the founders of the Transatlantic Cable gather on Valentia Island
Ten cats who can’t wait for their Gathering vacation to Ireland - PHOTOS
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- 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 "No Welcome for Trump" - Dublin and Doonbeg protests set for US President's visit
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
