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.
The impact Viking and Norman DNA had on the Irish
The 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, by the numbers
Popular Irish baby names to use in the US
Remembering Christy Brown, the writer behind My Left Foot, 45 years after his death
Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
The most popular girl names in the US with Irish origins
Remembering the people’s Irish heroes this Labor Day
Irish names that are almost always mispronounced in America
How Viking raiders reshaped Ireland's cities, bloodlines and coastline forever
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
