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.
Armistice Day: A Belfast photographer's personal look at WWI
Remembering the "gentle revolutionary" Seamus O'Kelly 100 years after his death
One hundred years ago on Armistice Day a Donegal man escapes from Cork Gaol
Ancestry in Ireland led Tony Hawk and wife Catherine to their magical Irish wedding day
How would the Irish have survived without emigrating to the sanctuary cities of the US
1,000-year-old miraculous Saint Patrick’s bell goes on display
75-year-old Irish grandma, daughter and grandchild attend same US university
Thousands of new Irish family records added to research database
Irish brothers reunite in New York after 59 years apart
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
