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.
Four-day Táin march celebrates ancient Irish epic tale
O’Dowds to O’Connells - Irish certainly have a way with names
The “Son of Sam” Summer and the Irish cop who caught the NY serial killer
Famous baseball player finds out who Irish parents were
All about visitor’s Irish clan names in Spiddal, Connemara
National Famine Commemoration Day marked by the president today in Co. Cork
Are you of Irish descent? Connect with your ancestors’ place of origin in Ireland today
How Montserrat’s slave rebellion and St. Patrick’s Day are celebrated together
"Tough, lucky and a drinker" - Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson delighted to learn he has Irish roots
Most read
- 1 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 2 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 3 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 4 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 5 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 6 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 7 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 8 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 9 President Michael D. Higgins accuses Israel of leaking his Iran letter
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
