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.
Which Irish names are making a comeback?
Can you guess the ratio of Irish Americans to the number of Irish?
When racism ruled New York and my great-great-grandfather died
How Hitler’s henchman became an Irish farmer after the war
Can you guess the most Irish towns in New York?
Amazing shots of Ireland in the ‘70s and '80s (PHOTOS)
Northern Irish orphans sent to Australia were painted black
John F. Kennedy branded de Valera a “lunatic” after 1945 visit to Ireland
Michael Collins' love letters to Kitty Kiernan up for auction in New York
Most read
- 1 Cobblestone Cottage: Stay in an authentic Irish cottage in Donegal
- 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
On This Day: Willie Clancy, Irish piper and folklorist, died in 1973
Ancient Sheela na Gigs, Irish statues of women exposing themselves, explained
On This Day: Arthur Guinness, founder of the Dublin brewery, died in 1803
On This Day: Queen Victoria, Ireland's "Famine Queen," died in 1901
Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising
Genealogy
