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.
On This Day: Joseph Mary Plunkett, 1916 Easter Rising leader, is executed
Inside Ireland’s oldest pub - it might be the oldest in the world!
Etiquette tips to know before traveling to Ireland
Fun facts about Dublin, Ireland's capital city
Mayo Day 2019 to be celebrated in New York City on May 4
Dublin memorial honoring 13,000 Irish killed at WWI Flanders Fields opened
Why the Irish invaded Canada to end British rule in Ireland
Stunning decor salvaged from Titanic's sister ship for auction in Dublin
The very odd Padraig Pearse and Hedy Lamarr connection
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
