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.
Native Irish tree planting farm located on a former secret WWII airbase
Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
Did Ireland’s ancient August Lughnasa games influence the Olympics?
The "Bad Bridgets" - forgotten Famine era single pregnant women who fled to America
The forgotten righteous Jew who saved thousands of Irish lives during the famine
Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
Monaghan census records from the 1500s go online
500 child skeletons in workhouse mass grave tell of Great Hunger struggles
On This Day: A Famine ship carrying my Irish ancestors arrives in New York City in 1847
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
