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.
The US and Canadian Roses competing in the 2019 Rose of Tralee
Earliest known photograph of Michael Collins revealed
Exclusive photos of 1913 Ireland from Irish newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis
WATCH: Award-winning 1965 Irish film will reawaken your love for Yeats
Australia's Irish famine commemoration takes place this weekend
Harry White - The last IRA Volunteer
Holt McCallany's Irish roots: Mindhunter star once lived in Dublin
Patrick MacMahon, the Irishman who became president of France
The ongoing battle to preserve the Irish language in Ireland
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
