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.
Did the Irish bomb the 1939 New York World Fair?
The Irish Potato Famine, the Great Hunger, genocide - what should we call it?
Ghosts are regulars at America’s most haunted Irish pub
First major Irish exhibition on Oscar Wilde launched at Trinity College
Did the Irish Famine trigger mental illness in the Irish?
The famous Chicago May, Irish Queen of crooks
Ireland’s Loch Ness monster resurfaced after 147 years
An inconvenient truth: Queen Victoria was welcomed by the Irish during the Famine
The fight to remember Irish-born American heroes, Patrick Sheahan and Patrick Gallagher
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
The Celtic and Catholic traditions of St. Brigid and her cross
On This Day: Derry civil rights marchers shot and killed on Bloody Sunday
On This Day: Kitty O'Shea was born in London in 1846
On This Day: Luke Kelly of The Dubliners passed away in 1984
On This Day: Iconic Irish writer William Butler Yeats died in 1939
Genealogy
