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.
Ancestors in Cork? New online records lets you find their graves
What's your Irish County? County Clare
Is your family from Cavan? Earliest Irish census records revealed online
On This Day: Irish American crooner Bing Crosby is born
On This Day: Ernest Ball, composer of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," was born
Newly released Classic Irish Postcard Collection gives a wonderful look into Ireland's past
What you should know about The Orchard County, County Armagh
County Armagh "road-bowling" is a quintessential summer tradition
TUNE IN: Join the Herstory livestream event today and celebrate the Celtic festival of Bealtaine
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
