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.
Washington Ireland Program launches largest ever Class
When nationalists burned down an Irish castle during IRA hunger strikes
An emigrant's praise of Irish rain
The children's thank you book that highlighted Ireland's post-war aid to Germany
Divers discover ancient artifacts in River Shannon while searching for missing persons
Northern Ireland's most popular and unusual Irish baby names of 2020 revealed
Now 100, the little Irish girl who rode an Orphan Train to Texas
The myths and legends of Ireland's hound of deep, the Dobhar Chu
The untold story of the women who helped build the US railroads
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- 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
