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.
How the Gaelic League gave massive funds to San Francisco after 1906 quake
Revealed: How Irish president de Valera had premonition of JFK's death
This Irish family name has global status - Discovering the worldwide O'Neills
Zimbabwe is home to one of the oldest Irish diaspora groups in the world
2020 Democratic candidates reveal if they have Irish heritage
Former Mayor of Portland blamed Irish poverty on their love of whiskey
O’Neill Gathering Planned for Nebraska in 2021
The Mayo river’s story and reflections of a mother’s life
Winston Churchill's son received this fiery letter from JFK now up for auction
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
