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.
Meet the Brennan clan, the Kilkenny name with a Viking king in its bloodline
Thomas Ashe, the Kerry schoolteacher who died on hunger strike in 1917
Paul McCartney's Irish roots lead back to a quiet corner of County Monaghan
Three million people alive today may descend from one Irish High King
Paul McCartney's Irish roots trace back to a small County Monaghan townland
DNA mapping reveals how closely Ireland and Scotland are truly related
Meet the Byrne clan, Ireland's seventh most common name with a king in its past
How the McCabes went from Scottish mercenaries to one of Cavan's biggest names
Behind the name: Claire, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
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- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
WATCH: Rare 1940 film captures Dublin trams, Nelson’s Pillar and a packed Croke Park
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction
Mayo’s starving walked 15 miles for food and were told to wait until lunch was over
Making the dead welcome - All Souls’ Day in Ireland
On This Day: George Bernard Shaw, Dublin wit with a Nobel and an Oscar, dies in 1950
Genealogy
