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.
Before he wrote "The Informer," Liam O'Flaherty occupied a Dublin hall with a red flag
The history of New York Irish corned beef and cabbage
The mass card used in Michael Collins's funeral in 1922
Ireland's stories, delivered straight to you
Irish author remembered today on "The Duchess Who Wasn't" Day
On This Day: Franco-Irish army drove the British out of Castlebar in 1798
Hitler’s revenge on an Irish village - three girls died
Surprising movies filmed in Ireland
On This Day: The Dublin Lockout begins in 1913
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
