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.
How to make Irish soda farls, the North's beloved breakfast bread
History of Irish emigration: its tragedies and what we should embrace and celebrate
This month in history: The Spanish land at Kinsale in 1601
Irish diaspora: What country has the most people of Irish heritage?
Why Irish Americans still call themselves Irish generations after their families left
Meet the gay Irish icons who shaped literature, revolution and pride
Molly Maguires: remembering one of the biggest federal executions in US history
Free and useful Irish genealogy websites to assist in your family history search
On This Day: “Quiet Man” director John Ford passed away in 1973
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
Nixon won the White House on this day in 1968 and later trashed the Irish on tape
WATCH: Rare 1940 film captures Dublin trams, Nelson’s Pillar and a packed Croke Park
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction
Mayo’s starving walked 15 miles for food and were told to wait until lunch was over
Making the dead welcome - All Souls’ Day in Ireland
Genealogy
