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.
A cupla focail: the most searched for Irish language words
General Milley's fighting Irish roots helped him stand up to Trump
Halfway to St. Patrick's Day! Let the countdown begin
Continuing silence over Ireland's Great Hunger Museum is deeply worrying
Joe Biden's ancestral ties to slavery are "relatively modest," says genealogist
Irish DNA goes back to Vikings as well as Niall of the Nine Hostages
Competition: Win a hotel stay and weekend pass to Pittsburgh Irish Festival 2021
How the Molly Maguires fought America’s first labor war
Unimaginable horrors - An Irish journalist's eyewitness account of 9/11
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
