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.
Can you be both New York and Irish? Leading Irish writers reflect on heritage
Famous Galway bookstore and art gallery turns 80 this November
Hy-Brasil, the phantom island west of Ireland that sailors swore they walked on
How Sybil Connolly led the Irish invasion into the fashion world
Irish Traveller Manor Donohue to scribe a book on his rich heritage
Famine museum launches new 27-stage "National Famine Way"
The truth about the "Nine Famous Irishmen" myth - It’s fake news mostly
Exploring the legend of the Molly Maguires
Viking artifacts suggest Cork is Ireland's oldest urban settlement
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
