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.
WATCH: This short Irish film features the best parts of old Ireland
St. Patrick's Festival is back! Schedule revealed for biggest Irish event of the year
The best real-life Irish love stories for St. Valentine’s Day
Remembering Larry Cunningham, the Longford farmer who became king of the showbands
Facts about the Irish and sex
Here's when Shamrock Shakes return to McDonald's in the US!
On This Day: Irish literary legend Brendan Behan is born in 1923
WATCH: Irish trad session in NYC's legendary Paddy Reilly’s more than 30 years ago
Billy the Kid to Whitey Bulger, the ten Irish outlaws who lived outside the law
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
