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.
Interactive StoryMaps bring Galway’s unique heritage to life
Recipes inspired by James Joyce's Dublin for Bloomsday
Forty famine ships lay off Grosse Île in 1847 with 12,500 people waiting on board
LAST CHANCE: Win a VIP trip to the largest Irish music festival, Milwaukee Irish Fest!
A disused Wicklow quarry holds the graves of 134 Germans who died on Irish soil
Celebrating the Irish who fought in the US Civil War this Memorial Day
The Roscommon Volunteers - The common men who freed Ireland
This Memorial Day, Irish Heritage Tree remembers those who have passed
The top ten attractions of County Offaly
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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
Ireland’s answer to the Bayeux Tapestry is just an hour from London
LISTEN: "Making Empire" and the Irish with historian Jane Ohlmeyer
Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
From the Great Blasket to America - a memoir of the longest surviving islander
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Genealogy