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.
Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy - the scandalous, rebellious, and tragic life of JFK’s sister
Ancient secrets of the Hill of Tara revealed
The top five questions about Irish genealogy
Interactive digital memorials - IrishCentral & Chptr join forces
Why the Irish no longer mark Remembrance Day
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
The Irish war hero and pioneer who founded Ireland, Indiana
Top ten movies banned in Ireland
The forgotten Irish American verses of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
Most read
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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