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.
History of Connemara Marble from Co Galway, the rare Irish gemstone
Seven Irish legends to tell your kids as the dark evenings close in
New book explores how Notre Dame fought the KKK out of South Bend
WATCH: Bruce Springsteen sings and pulls a pint in Kildare pub
The Irish nun remembered as the "Angel of Alcoholics Anonymous"
Meghan Markle has a surprising Irish connection
History of Skellig Michael, the ancient Irish island featured in "Star Wars"
What's your Irish county? County Cavan
WATCH: "Derry Girls" and "Bad Sisters" stars explore what fills their heart with 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
