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.
LISTEN: Rents, riots and volcanoes – Ireland on the brink of the Great Hunger
Irish women’s Great Hunger immigration examined at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut
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Guess which American president personally hanged two Irishmen from the scaffold?
You may have more Irish cousins than you think
How Ancestry DNA helped me discover my official “Galway Girl” title
Why DNA tests show different levels of Irish ancestry among family members
How a John F Kennedy impersonator lost his livelihood after tragic assassination
Irish-born cowboys were the fastest guns in the west once upon a time
Most read
- 1 Bruce Springsteen and his proud County Kildare heritage
- 2 The Irish cook who became America's most dangerous woman
- 3 Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles both descend from High King Brian Boru
- 4 Why Eavan Boland's emigration poem still speaks to the Irish abroad
- 5 Discover your Walsh family roots in Ireland's fourth most common name
- 6 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 7 Meet the Byrne clan, Ireland's seventh most common name with a king in its past
- 8 Behind the name: Claire, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
- 9 Irish soda farls are the easy four ingredient fix for a cosy autumn breakfast
History
Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles both descend from High King Brian Boru
Meet the Byrne clan, Ireland's seventh most common name with a king in its past
Bruce Springsteen and his proud County Kildare heritage
North Brother Island's most famous resident was an Irish cook named Mary Mallon
The Irish cook who became America's most dangerous woman
Genealogy
