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.
The greatest love letters to famous Irishmen
Letters of a family to their son in America after the Famine
A deceitful life: a Nazi’s treason and life as an Irish impostor
Evidence shows Amelia Earhart and her Irish American navigator may have survived crash
Tragic lives of wife and children of Easter Rising martyr Thomas MacDonagh
Did you know Robert Emmet, executed on this day in 1803, has a D.C. park named after him?
George Washington’s greatest sniper was an Irish marksman
All these years later, JFK still inspires
How the Irish Union soldiers stopped Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, this anniversary day
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
