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.
Happy 102nd Birthday to US President John F Kennedy
When Countess Markievicz spent summer 1919 in Cork jail
Never-before-seen footage of John F Kennedy Jr’s wedding revealed
850 Irish Famine victims buried in mass grave in Boston finally remembered
Irish constitution in 1937 defied Hitler and allowed Jews to practice their faith
Top reasons to make the move to Ireland
American family gives Irish manuscript back to Ireland
Celebrating Aer Lingus on the anniversary of their first flight in 1936
New Aer Lingus package helps travelers discover their Irish roots 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
