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.
"Planting roots in Ireland", meaningful reasons behind the gift of an Irish Heritage Tree
Rare footage of Michael Collins during Irish Civil War revealed
WATCH: The Irish town ‘steeped in sorrow’ after JFK’s assassination
How Maureen O'Hara became Hollywood royalty
The best modern-day Irish love songs
Conan O'Brien discusses Irish ancestry on Irish podcast "Second Captains"
On This Day: Oliver Cromwell sets sail to Ireland in 1649
One Irish family's story of emigration - the Dunnings from Drumlosh
Milwaukee Irish Fest starts this week, here's our event guide on what not to miss!
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
