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.
On This Day: Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, the Vatican’s Scarlet Pimpernel, died in Kerry
Forty-six years ago today Muhammad Ali defeated Leon Spinks, fueled by Irish pride
The fascinating history of Ché Guevara’s Irish ancestry
All of Ireland’s Catholic Church records available online
How the Irish came to America, from the Great Hunger to today
Irish names that are popular outside Ireland
Ireland had vampires, demons and a headless horseman long before Halloween
Searching for my ancestors in Butte, Montana's famous Irish mining town
Texas woman discovers shock Irish roots after DNA test
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
