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.
Pittsburgh Irish Festival! Here is the lineup & new events you can expect
Two Irish names among the most rare baby names in the United States
The origins of anti-Irish jokes and how they impacted Irish worldwide
WATCH: World’s largest redhead festival 2023 is a fiery, fun fiesta
Help keep Ireland green by planting a tree with the Irish Heritage Tree
LISTEN: Liam Neeson and Conan O'Brien on their Irish roots (and Guinness)
Irish immigrant museum explores Notre Dame's historic roots with Ireland
How Eamon de Valera got involved with Michael Collins' tombstone
"Empowered" Rose of Tralee set to return home to New York this weekend
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