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 a New York Irish bar once banned "Danny Boy" on St. Patrick's Day
Tipperary-American and "The Peeler and the Goat"
A history of the Irish girl's name Albha
Exploring Elvis Presley’s Irish roots in County Wicklow
Ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day that don't involve a pub
Fun facts about St. Patrick’s Day celebrations around the world
The most popular baby names in Ireland over the last 50 years
Celebrate Valentine's Day by gifting an Irish Heritage Tree planted in Ireland
St. Patrick’s Festival 2023! What to expect from this year's global Irish celebration
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
