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.
Irish Americans encouraged to join international O’Neill gathering in Ireland
“How I Met Your Mother” star Alyson Hannigan has trouble spelling her daughter’s Irish name
Prayer book of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins discovered in France
Sandy Seisiuns kick off - Irish musicians aid Breezy Point and the Rockaways
Christmas magic - turning Santa Claus skeptics into believers
Wigging out at the Mid Atlantic Regional Oireachtas in Philadelphia
New York Irish History Roundtable to host walking tour in Brooklyn heights
Back at it - returning to Oireachtas 2012 to compete as adults in ceilis
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island will remain closed until 2013 due to Hurricane Sandy damage
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
