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.
Winona Ryder discovers her Irish roots after ancestor's secret adoption
LISTEN: Did the Irish of 1845 see the Great Hunger coming?
EPIC Irish heroes and villains who “made it” in America
LA’s oldest Irish bar Tom Bergin’s to close after 81 years in business
John F Kennedy no longer has family links to County Cavan
From Troubles to peace – rare Northern Ireland archives go online
Scientists studying Irish Famine reveal women more likely to survive life-threatening situations
Turns out Prince Harry’s Meghan Markle is a Galway girl after all
Standing on the shoulders of giants - the mighty legacy of John Hume
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
