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 businessman remembered as one of Ireland's richest men
The history behind the gold shamrock Kate Middleton wears on St. Patrick's Day
Braveheart - When Ireland had a Scottish High King
Magic made! Dancing into the night on a bridge outside Ballina in the 1950s
Famous People who share Irish and Jewish backgrounds
Irish graveside stories: QR code to tell dead loved one's history
JFK's Secret Service agents were too hungover to react in Dallas, says author
On This Day: Divorce in Ireland was made legal in 1995 after 70 years
Harry Kane’s Irish roots back in the spotlight after England's World Cup win
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
