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.
Irish Americans asked to clarify their ethnic identity in 2020 census
Maureen Dowd’s Uma Thurman world scoop -- They don’t come more Irish than the NY Times columnist
Famine episode of 'Victoria' TV drama that "shocked" British airs on PBS tonight
LISTEN: When the potato blight hit and terror ensued during Ireland's Famine
The changing identity of Irish and Irishness in a global context
Coming home - following my dream to visit Ireland, where I belong
The Irish flag was flown for the first time 170 years ago in Waterford
Saints named me - my very Irish names and its legacy
435-million-year-old starfish fossil found in Galway
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
