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.
Michael Collins' close call - his escape across a Dublin rooftop
Irish Australian outlaw Ned Kelly's famous armor
Why JFK and Biden remain America's only two Catholic presidents
How was Newgrange built? Archaeologists long boat discovery could shed some light
Richard Nixon's connection to a small town in County Kildare
This month in history: Suffragette Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington born in Co Cork
Top ghost sightings in Ireland
Genealogists petition for early release of 1926 Irish census
Newly discovered Irish American who raised the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II
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
