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.
The real-life “Jaws” - New Jersey shark attacks in 1916
Dublin Magdalene Laundry closed in 1996 could be a museum to women and children who suffered
Tickets now available to discover your history at The Genealogy Event in New York
Exciting new documentary on Irish rebel Seán Mac Diarmada available to view for free
Irish dancer Bridget Oei named runner-up in Miss America 2018 pageant
Why this British actor chose to raise his children around "Irish wit and humanity"
A second hand pair of trousers and two Popes
Was this Irish spy the inspiration for James Bond’s ‘M?’
Remarkable Lusitania deck chair salvaged by Blasket islanders could go on display
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
