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.
How Irish writer Liam O'Flaherty once led a "Council of the Unemployed" occupancy in Dublin
A century after his death, Wexford still reveres this Irish rebel
Create the perfect memorial for your loved one by learning about their Irish roots
One Irish baby name has topped the US charts for 44 years in the past century
Seeking love, hundreds from China and Japan flock to Irish matchmaking festival
Does Pope Francis know the greatest Irish Catholic priest of all time?
Northern Ireland's first civil rights march was held 50 years ago today
Did a young American woman steal Oscar Wilde’s heart?
Discover research on common Irish names, emigration research, and more at The Genealogy Event
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
