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.
On This Day: Six people killed during Loughinisland Massacre in Co Down
The fascinating 8,000-year history of Irish cuisine
Why my orphaned Irish father will always be my best friend
EVENT: Don’t miss the last few days of The Irish Civil War National Conference
On This Day: 80 years ago Johnny McCormack, Ireland’s beloved tenor passed away
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
Who was W. B. Yeats and why he still matters
When 30,000 attended a Fenian Irish picnic in New York City in 1865
The Irish duo who murdered 16 people and sold the cadavers
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
