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.
Top Irish and Irish American resources, DNA explored at The Genealogy Event, New York
Ghost of 19th century nun appears in Galway photos
Top ten Irish outlaws with Irish roots from Ned Kelly to Whitey Bulger
How an Irish Studies program helped me discover and connect with my Irish heritage
The death of this rebel-on-the-run marked the start of five weeks of British terror in Ireland
National Family History Month: A County Clare family reunion – a hooley any Irish family would cherish
Campaign to commemorate wife of Irish rebel buried in Staten Island
Top ten terrifying secrets to know about Halloween in Ireland
Grieving bride visits Irish American fiancé’s grave on their would-be wedding day
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
