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.
Did you know Ireland has an Amish community?
Famous shipwreck could have brought Irish indentured servants to Virginia
Auction: 'Irish Vernacular: Private Collection of Ceramics, Furniture, and Metalwork'
Choctaw Native Americans selflessly donated to Irish Famine relief
When Michael Flatley performed an anti-war dance in front of Russia’s Putin
What is the average cost of a funeral in Ireland?
Win an Irish Heritage Tree planted in honor of someone special with Moon Mná
The moving origins of the giant Celtic cross in a Donegal forest
Where the Black Irish really came from and no, it wasn’t the Spanish Armada
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
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
On this day in 1990, Mary Robinson became the first woman elected president of Ireland
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
Genealogy
