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.
Irish Embassy feared “The Quiet Man” would spark protests from Irish Americans
Michael Collins Dublin walking tour - key locations in the Big Fella’s life
New podcast will delve into the tragic history of Ireland’s Great Hunger
John F. Kennedy assassination target was Governor Connally says historian
Irish Twitter account names every single Great Hunger emigrant
Auction of Patrick Pearse’s mysterious second note of surrender in 1916
The near disaster of my first holy communion
Waist-high snowfall in 822 AD led to Irish famine and death
Irish American Civil War soldier’s last letter home, found on his dead body
Most read
- 1 "Irish? Catholic? Join Here": Finding community with The Ancient Order of Hibernians
- 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: 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
AIHS marks 180th anniversary of Ireland's Great Hunger with lecture series
Albert F. Coyle: The forgotten Irish American hero of the Holocaust
Genealogy
