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.
The nun helping women build new lives after prison
The leprechaun Vs fairies: which are the most authentic Irish little folk?
A Groundhog St. Patrick’s Day in store for Irish
Paying tribute to the Rockaways heroes of Hurricane Sandy
President Higgins salutes the Irish abroad in St. Patrick’s Day message
The Michael Collins connection to the "Quiet Man" (VIDEO)
After her niece's death, she changed Chicago law to put AEDs in public
Get your Irish up in the kitchen with recipes from Darina and Rachel Allen and Kevin Dundon
Bill O’Reilly, Chris Matthews, Governor O'Malley and a room of 200 proud Irish Americans
Most read
- 1 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 4 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 5 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 8 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
- 9 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
History
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
Genealogy
