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.
Celebrated Irish authors Don Mullan and Mary Kelly to lecture at Quinnipiac University
My great-grandfather struck a police officer with a meat cleaver: fact or fiction?
Gerry Adams says Irish America was critical to IRA 1994 ceasefire
Are there heroes in your family tree?
Padraig Pearse’s famous graveside oration at center of new movie on 1916 Rising
Ireland and America – a two billion year relationship
Book Review: 'Finding Your Irish Ancestors in New York City' by Joe Buggy
Guinness unveils two new beers, inspired by diary entries from 1796 and 1801
Garbage man Ed Shevlin wins a Fulbright for Irish scholarship
Most read
- 1 Oh baby! Ireland's national treasure Sudocrem has launched in America
- 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
What did the Vikings do for the Irish?
WATCH: Newsreel of William T. Cosgrave's 1928 visit to the US and Canada
The Southern Cross Irish newspaper, in Buenos Aires, celebrates 150 years
Traditional Irish wakes called for drinks, pranks, games, and songs
On This Day: The Third Home Rule Bill passed the House of Commons in 1913
Genealogy
