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.
The Black Irish - what are the truths and what are the myths?
The Tuatha De Danann: Were they Irish gods or aliens?
Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
1916 Easter Rising made the front page of the New York Times 14 days in a row
Irish icons Sam Maguire and Liam McCarthy died penniless
Irish smoked salmon over potato boxty pancakes recipe
The best wild places to visit in Ireland
Hypnotizing animated map shows immigration to the US over 200 years
How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
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
