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 history of the Irish in Milwaukee
Forgotten no more - The tens of thousands of Irish who fought in the US Civil War
DNA kit deal will reveal the mysteries of your Irish family history
Why the Irish swear so much
Remarkable tombstone of Irish immigrant found under San Francisco home
Did John Kennedy Jr and Princess Diana have a secret meeting in NYC?
The Bloody Monday riots of 1855 were the most horrific attack on Irish Catholic immigrants
Five Irish American serial killers and evil doers - the worst Irish on earth
Irish housekeeper of the Confederate White House
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
