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.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders revealed her Irish roots this St. Patrick’s Day
Researching the mystery of my dearly departed father in Ireland
Exploited Irish construction workers in Britain remembered at House of Commons
80 years after being abandoned under a blackberry bush she finds her parents
Baseball legend Jim Palmer discovers he was adopted from Irish parents
LISTEN: St Patrick's Day during the Great Hunger's Black '47
Irish man who lost both legs in work fall released from Australian hospital in time for St. Patrick's Day
Check out this Irish man's amazing tattoo of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott
US woman swaps life in sunny San Diego for dream cosy cottage in Donegal
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
