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.
In Focus: Mary McDonagh Murphy, Emmy Award winning journalist
Mommy Diaries evolves into The Irish Homecoming -- It’s Great to Be Back Home
New evidence shows Turkey delivered food to Ireland during the famine
A beautiful spot in Connemara that is hard to beat in Ireland
Shrine of St. Manchan relic recovered after being stolen on Friday in Offaly
Mind, Tory, Puck - the history of Irish words still used today in modern English
“I am neither American nor Irish” - Growing up Woodlawn with Irish parents
In Focus: Niall O’Leary - Irish dance teacher, adjudicator and musician
My Irish Homecoming - We’re back home but so many are leaving
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
