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.
149 years later, Civil War letters in attic reveal a famine Irish immigrant’s life
Victoria Cross won by Irishman in Australian WWI forces comes to Ireland after 80 years
I always knew I was an O'Sullivan at heart - Discovering my ancestry
Mystery of Irish World War II hero finally solved after six decades
A Mayo hero - NYPD cop and nine-time Olympic medalist
On This Day: Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., JFK's older brother, is born in 1915
The IRA Chief of Staff who was “unbought, unconquered, and unpurchasable to the last”
Toronto honors doctor for compassion shown to Irish Great Hunger emigrants
Irishwoman the British could not contain whose name has faded from history
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