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.
On This Day: Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands during WWII, died in 1963
Delving into Irish wedding traditions and history
The Tipperary boy who fled the Famine and won the Medal of Honor at Gettysburg
Want to learn more about your Irish family? This genealogy book has the answers
The Irish American woman who grabbed an oar and told her Titanic lifeboat to turn back
Expert genealogy tips: Irish marriage licence bonds
The spooky Irish ghost town of Bantry, North Dakota
Magic spells for beauty and love from the White Witch of Cobh
Spooky photo from Victorian-era Belfast - do you see a ghost?
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
