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.
Conan O'Brien discusses Irish ancestry on Irish podcast "Second Captains"
On This Day: Oliver Cromwell sets sail to Ireland in 1649
One Irish family's story of emigration - the Dunnings from Drumlosh
Milwaukee Irish Fest starts this week, here's our event guide on what not to miss!
On This Day: Father Michael McGivney, the Founder of the Knights of Columbus was born
On This Day: An Irish doctor survives the bombing of Nagasaki
Remembering Daniel O’Connell's final tragic plea to save Ireland from Famine on his birthday
Tommy O'Connor: the vital link between the US and Ireland ahead of the 1916 Easter Rising
Roger Casement and John Devoy's unlikely friendship
Most read
- 1 WIN a trip to Ireland by sharing your love letter to the Emerald Isle with us!
- 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
The Irish nun who nursed Pope Francis as a baby in Buenos Aires
Did you know Pope Francis once lived in Dublin?
An Irish saint's eerie prophecy that Pope Francis will be the last Pontiff
Concern for the future of the Galway Hooker explored in new TG4 documentary
On This Day: Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816
Genealogy
