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.
When did Ireland leave the British Empire? Spoiler - It wasn’t 1916
Barry Keoghan: From challenging Irish childhood to Oscar nominee
The history of The Clancy Brothers’ song “No Irish Need Apply”
Holocaust Remembrance Day: The only Irish citizen to die at Auschwitz
Fancy a cuppa? A history of tea in Ireland
Charlie Chaplin once visited Big Jim Larkin behind bars in Sing Sing prison
Irish bishops treated Ronald Reagan “like the plague” says historian
Discover the ten essentials that make up a true Irish breakfast
Maine Irish Heritage Center receives $3 million in federal funding for renovations
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
