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.
Safe in the arms of my Irish birth mother and English adoptive mother
Irish WW2 hero’s son given medals his father never received
Could you be the next Chicago St. Patrick’s Day Parade Queen?
New Year’s resolutions for Irish-Americans from the Ancient Order of Hibernians
The Irish inventor who returned from America to build his very own Castle Curious
The Minty Irishman: An Irish champagne cocktail perfect for New Year's Eve
The Irish in the USA and Lebanon - the amazing tales and rich contribution of immigrants
Tales of home and the American dream at the NY Irish Center at Christmas
Rowdy rebels - the formation of the Irish Volunteers in Cork city
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
