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.
Why County Offaly is the greatest place in the world
The Monaghan man who filmed the devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
An American WWII plane was excavated from Irish field 76 years after crashing
Dublin's Thomas Barnardo pioneered modern child welfare more than a century ago
Famine orphans from Northern Ireland transported to Australia
What's your Irish County? County Longford
What's your Irish County? County Louth
GIVEAWAY: VIP trip to the largest Irish music festival, Milwaukee Irish Fest!
Join Liam Neeson this Mother’s Day by planting a tree in Ireland
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
