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 a promise helped a Belfast doctor survive a World War II Japanese POW camp
How to trace your Irish roots using this traditional Irish naming pattern
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Doherty clan
Who lived in the spectacular American Irish Historical Society building?
Henry Ford changed the world with the Model T but his family story began in Cork
The worst Irish movies ever made
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The O'Hara clan
Learn about "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon’s Irish roots
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The O'Flaherty Clan
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
