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.
This beloved Irish name was given to less than three baby girls last year
On This Day: JFK, first Irish American Catholic President of the US, assassinated in Dallas
Behind the name: Claire, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
On This Day: Dublin's Bloody Sunday of 1920
From Connecticut to Cael Uisce - American man finds his Fermanagh family
JFK's strong Irish roots in Limerick, Fermanagh, Cork, and Clare
10 previously very common Irish baby names that are going extinct
Plant a tree in Ireland for Thanksgiving and give thanks to your heritage
Mysteries of deserted pre-Famine village on Achill Island revealed
The real Irish woman behind one of the most iconic images from Ireland's Famine
Most read
- 1 The Ultimate Irish Gift Guide: How to make this Christmas EPIC for your loved ones
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
Catholic Ireland's tradition of the Station Mass, a rural farm's incredible 1960s prep
2000-year-old fig discovered by Irish archaeologists in Dublin
How an elephant named Cindy came to be memorialized in Co Roscommon
JFK Jr.'s heartbreaking salute to his father's coffin
Irish American Civil War soldier’s last letter home, found on his dead body
Genealogy
