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.
Choctaw Native American leads Tipperary famine walk, compares to “Trail of Tears”
What we know about Christina Aguilera’s Irish roots
County Clare - GAA All-Ireland footballer's glory in 1917
Mystery of Irishman's message in a bottle found in Alaska 54 years ago finally solved
Bringing Irish ancestors’ stories home and connecting with the past
Irish PhD student maps out incredible medieval economy of Ireland
Tracing my Irish roots led me to the big family I always dreamed of
How the Jive took over Irish rural culture with thanks to the iconic Big Tom
Seven Irish heroes who never came home from the Korean War
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
