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.
Amazing 89-year-old man who won't let Irish Americans forget the Famine
Most popular baby names in Ireland 2017 revealed
Magic Halloween spells from the White Witch of Cobh
How an Irish-born great-great-grandfather came to fight in the US Civil War
The top Irish Halloween scary spirits - a terrifying bunch
"The best left" - Irish emigrants and those who remained to pick up the pieces
Boston's Fenway Park - home to GAA, hurling, and freedom
Could these Irish names become extinct due to current trends?
Famine victims had badly rotten teeth due to heavy smoking new study reveals
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
