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.
The real Irish woman behind one of the most iconic images from Ireland's Famine
A reunion at an 18th-century family homestead in Leitrim
On This Day: William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize in 1923
On This Day: Five brave Sullivan brothers killed on same day during WWII
The history behind some of Ireland's most famous symbols
The Irish origins of Lynching
On This Day: Easter Rising hero Padraig Pearse born in 1879
Walt Disney wore THIS iconic piece of Irish jewellery up until his death
Unique Irish names for your winter baby
On This Day: John F. Kennedy declared winner of 1960 US Presidential Election
Most read
- 1 "Green Friday" is here! Save 15% off popular vacations to Ireland with CIE Tours
- 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
An Irish General's incendiary proposal: Let Blacks fight for the Confederacy
WATCH: 75 years after, an eye-witness to the 1916 Easter Rising tells her story
Albert Cashier, the woman who fought as a man for the Union
From Shannon to Dallas: A virtual journey through JFK’s final weeks
John Francis ‘Honey Fitz’ Fitzgerald – founder of the Kennedy political dynasty
Genealogy
