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 Ireland forever changed this shy American girl from Utah
Kennedy family attend Meath exhibition launch dedicated to Irish history maker
Polish explorer who saved over 200,000 during Irish Famine remembered in new exhibit
Ireland's most popular counties and their top attractions
Third time's a charm for Tipp V Cork 1926 Hurling Final
How a Waterford socialist politician became England's Minister for Health
The anti-fascist fighter from the Cork/Kerry border
Honoring 10,000 Irish immigrants who built the US railroads
On This Day: 1916 Easter Rising executions continue to the shock of many Irish people
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- 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
