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.
New Yorker tracks down her grandmother's Cork home with internet's help
The terrifying ghost story of Lady Beresford's death sentence
Leap Castle is the most haunted castle in Ireland and this story proves it
Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson’s Irish roots
Five things you didn’t know about your Kerry ancestors
The most Irish towns in New York
Dublin family reunion after 54-year-old American woman discovers she's Irish
On This Day: An IRA bomb kills five people in Brighton in 1984
Beloved actress Angela Lansbury, who was an Irish citizen, has died
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- 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
