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.
What makes Ireland’s history global - cast of heroes, villains, eccentrics and crackpots
How the sons of Irish ancestors rose the ranks of the CIA - VIDEO
Boston contests Chicago for St. Patrick’s Day HQ title – but have they forgotten about New York?
Caroline Kennedy set for Ireland to mark JFK's 50th anniversary visit
Online "Irish Family History Day" launched with 21 million birth, marriage and death records released
Des Moines' St Patrick's Day parade could be canceled this year
One of America’s largest Irish families the McCormicks invited home for The Gathering
New York based designer Don O'Neill to address Kerry Fashion Weekend
In Focus - Caroline Clarke - Cavan native and co-founder of Queens stationery company Madge & Mabel
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
