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.
GIVEAWAY: Win a native Irish tree planted in West Cork for Earth Day!
These hilarious gravestone epitaphs prove Irish dark wit is unmatched
Medieval manuscript reveals links between Irish education and Muslim world
An Irish woman was the last witch hanged in Boston
The best (or worst?) Irish jokes for a hearty chuckle
New book on losing and finding yourself again in the wilds of Donegal
Frank Carson's classic jokes still bring the house down
Irish dance jokes that will have you counting to eight and laughing anyway
Who was the longest-living Irish survivor of the Titanic?
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- 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
