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.
Key to Christmas was decorating our tree with my father
UNESCO gives special designation to uilleann piping
Did you know redheads, ten percent of Ireland, have superpowers?
Kilkenny center honoring 976 buried famine dead opens to public
LIVE: The remarkable story of Irish women’s emigration to the US live from Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute
LISTEN: Rents, riots and volcanoes – Ireland on the brink of the Great Hunger
Irish women’s Great Hunger immigration examined at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut
Does Ireland hold the record for the world’s longest good-bye?
Guess which American president personally hanged two Irishmen from the scaffold?
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- 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
