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: AOH marks 175th anniversary of first report of Ireland’s potato blight
Remembering 9/11's first recorded victim, Irish American FDNY Chaplain Mychal Judge
How Ireland's tradition of blind musicians led to a new vision for orchestral music
Irish man's Facebook post puts him in contact with long-lost relatives
Trump advisor Kimberly Guilfoyle’s political streak started with her County Clare father
Why you should go on a date with an Irish man
Father William Corby, the fighting chaplain of Notre Dame
On This Day The Cork Examiner, now The Irish Examiner, hit the streets for the first time
An Post celebrates 25 years of Father Ted with commemorative stamps
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
