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.
A look at Ireland a century ago - 1926 Census goes online for the first time
UNESCO sites and culture around the island of Ireland
On This Day: Carpathia arrives in New York with hundreds of Titanic survivors
Irish language names among the most popular for Northern Ireland's babies last year
The Swede and the Finn who fought at the GPO in the 1916 Rising
Roger Casement, 1916 rebel executed on this day, denied hero status because he was gay
Are your Irish ancestors in the Kilmainham Jail autograph book from 1916?
This mythological Irish name was given to fewer than three babies last year
The men onboard the Titanic who gave up their lives to save women and children
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
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Nixon won the White House on this day in 1968 and later trashed the Irish on tape
WATCH: Rare 1940 film captures Dublin trams, Nelson’s Pillar and a packed Croke Park
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction
Mayo’s starving walked 15 miles for food and were told to wait until lunch was over
Genealogy
