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.
Every Irish person has 14,000 cousins, research reveals
Tracing your Irish roots? A guide to Irish birth, death, and marriage records
How to find out if you have Irish Viking ancestry
Three Irish siblings reunited after more than 50 years thanks to DNA tests
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Lynch Clan
Irish genealogy gold! Jameson whiskey releases 100 years of employee records online
The Irishman who discovered DNA
Can you help identify this man in colorized video of 1920s Ireland?
We've planted a native tree in Ireland for the brilliant Irish novelist Edna O'Brien
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- 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
