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.
National Family History Month: Our surprising adventures chasing ancestors in Ireland
Bridget Cleary, "the last witch burned in Ireland"
Irish America’s tumultuous history and today’s heart-wrenching immigrant crisis
Can taking a DNA test tell what kind of music you’re into?
Spooky and smart Irish Halloween costume ideas
On this day, the 1981 hunger strikes ended - Could Margaret Thatcher have prevented their deaths?
PODCAST: Life and death of Irish highwayman James McLaine
Great-grandfather of former Obama UN ambassador saved Michael Collins’ life
National Family History Month: American woman's search for her Irish roots pays off
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
