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.
Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel has witnessed key events in Ireland's history
Churchill wanted Irish bombed from the air, refused Michael Collins' plea
Test yourself with these top census statistics, facts and figures about Ireland
Ireland's top archaeological discoveries that'll make your jaw drop
Bill Cunningham's secret memoir reveals painful childhood growing up in Catholic Irish America
Is the Irish language dead or alive?
POLL: Who’s the most famous Irish person of all time?
Trinity’s online exhibition marks 100th anniversary of Irish women gaining the vote
Hunt Jackie Kennedy’s ghost in New York City with your friends
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
