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.
100 years ago today Michael Collins named treaty delegation - De Valera refused to join
Guess the only state in the US where an Irish last name ranks in the top three
On This Day: 99 Great Hunger refugees died off the coast of Massachusetts in 1849
Black Irish Identities: The complex relationship between Irish and African Americans
Police investigate robbery at pub in Ireland founded by Joe Biden's ancestors
Writing the songs of our ancestors - A reflexive exploration of identity
Experience Irish music like never before at the Masters Of Tradition Festival
LISTEN: Cillian Murphy narrates podcast on survivors of Tuam Mother and Baby Homes
Michael Collins' walking stick sells for astonishing £52,000 at auction
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
