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 most popular Irish baby names on Irish passport applications in 2023
Winter memories of Co Tyrone in the 1960s
Inis Meáin's past and present captured in new TG4 documentary
Irish museum honors The Pogues and Shane MacGowan with EPIC new exhibition
How the Jews saved an Irish Christmas in The Bronx
Happy solstice! How to watch Newgrange's magical light display live from Ireland
WATCH: Conan O’Brien and Joe Biden banter about their Irish American roots
A St. Brigid Festival is coming to Ireland in 2024, here's our official guide
A deadly “great blaze” - the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918
Most read
- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 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
